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From: | Benja Fallenstein |
Subject: | Re: [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst |
Date: | Fri, 30 May 2003 16:12:47 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030521 Debian/1.3.1-1 |
Tuomas J. Lukka wrote:
+One of the key innovations in storm is the use +of *pointer blocks*+to build mutable documents on top of +the lowest-layer append-and-delete-only model. +A pointer block is simply a storm block which says+``The identifier X points to document Id, overriding +the previous pointer blocks a, b`` and contains+a digital signature of the above information.
I understood from Eric's comments that the terms mutable/immutable aren't generally understood in connection with documents ('I didn't know that immutability had something to do with versioning', or so).
-b
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