18 Mar
2003
18 Mar
'03
4:25 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003, Zooko wrote:
No -- capabilities (as envisioned for Python) are references. Whether a reference to an object, to a bound method, or to a function doesn't matter.
Note that it isn't that capabilities are "like" references, it is that capabilities *are* references. Every reference is a capability. Every capability is a reference.
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