On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 17:30 +0100, Ivan Herman wrote: > > Another way of putting it is that a g-text is a special form of a > g-box, which has the peculiarity of representing a g-snap in a text > file. No, a g-text is not a special form of a g-box. A g-text is a fixed sequence of characters or bytes; a g-box is a potentially-mutable collection. If two g-texts are the same sequence, they are the same g-text; that's not at all true of g-boxes. In a low-level language, like assembly or C, g-box would be some area of memory, while a g-text would be some values that might be stored in that memory. Computer files are boxes, not texts, in this terminology -- they can change, and they have an identity separate from their contents. -- SandroReceived on Friday, 25 February 2011 17:19:12 UTC
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