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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Persistence of limited tagged types
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> Live objects, because they cannot just be copied, cannot be directly
> archived or restored, but must first be properly deactivated and
> reactivated, by specific operations that have the correct specific logic
> for each live (limited) type.
  That sounds like a Limited Controlled object.  Initialize creates
de novo or reads from disk to "activate" and Finalize deactivates,
storing appropriate reconstruction info on disk.