[Python-Dev] Capabilities (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:25:07 -0500

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003, Zooko wrote:

No -- capabilities (as envisioned for Python) are references. Whether a reference to an object, to a bound method, or to a function doesn't matter. Note that it isn't that capabilities are "like" references, it is that capabilities are references. Every reference is a capability. Every capability is a reference.

Are you saying that an int is a capability?

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