Author: lwall Date: 2010-04-05 19:16:34 +0200 (Mon, 05 Apr 2010) New Revision: 30317
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] rename ObjID to ObjAt to reduce possibility of collision with user types Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod =================================================================== --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod 2010-04-05 17:07:39 UTC (rev 30316) +++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod 2010-04-05 17:16:34 UTC (rev 30317) @@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ or any other mundane value type). Nor should we be encouraging people to think of object locations that way in any case. So C<WHICH> still returns a value rather than another object, but that value must be of -a special C<ObjID> type that prevents accidental confusion with normal +a special C<ObjAt> type that prevents accidental confusion with normal value types, and at least discourages trivial pointer arithmetic. Certainly, it is difficult to give a unique name to every possible @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ a space. In the absence of a universal naming scheme, it can only be made improbable that two addresses from two different spaces will collide. A sufficently large random number may represent the current -address space on output of an C<ObjID> to a different address space, +address space on output of an C<ObjAt> to a different address space, or if serialized to YAML or XML. (This extra identity component need not be output for debugging messages that assume the current address space, since it will be the same big number consistently,
