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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> This is solved by double indirection.  Access values are not
> addresses, but opaque handles.  The compiler is expected to lock the
> handle to obtain the actual address.

Ah, so it's sort of like the original implementation of Smalltalk-80 --
an array of addresses of "instances", and a pointer to an instance
actually contains the array index?

- Bob