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Comment by dboreham

6 months ago

It's a fancy word for "access things through a handle".

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gpderetta  6 months ago

The key property being that everything can only be accessed via handles, including, recursively, other handles (i.e. to get an handle to an object you need first to already have an handle to the handle-giver for that object).

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