> From: "Kevin Bourrillion" <kev...@google.com> > To: "Remi Forax" <fo...@univ-mlv.fr> > Cc: "Brian Goetz" <brian.go...@oracle.com>, "valhalla-spec-experts" > <valhalla-spec-experts@openjdk.java.net> > Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 11:42:21 PM > Subject: Re: User model: terminology
> On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 8:44 AM Remi Forax < [ mailto:fo...@univ-mlv.fr | > fo...@univ-mlv.fr ] > wrote: >>> - A term for all non-identity classes. (Previously, all classes had >>> identity.) >> I've used the term "immediate", immediate object vs reference object. > Note that the temporal meaning (right now) is much much stronger in people's > minds than the spatial one ("immediately next to"). And this here isn't even > quite spatial. So for me, this doesn't work. The temporal meaning re-enforce the idea, you do not have to follow a pointer and wait for the value to arrive, the value is already here. Rémi
