[Gzz] Re: [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 04:12:47PM +0200, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> Tuomas J. Lukka wrote:
> >+One of the key innovations in storm is the use 
> >+of *pointer blocks*
> >+to build mutable documents on top of
> >+the lowest-layer append-and-delete-only model.
> >+A pointer block is simply a storm block which says
> >+``The identifier X points to document Id, overriding 
> >+the previous pointer blocks a, b`` and contains
> >+a digital signature of the above information.
> 
> I understood from Eric's comments that the terms mutable/immutable 
> aren't generally understood in connection with documents ('I didn't know 
> that immutability had something to do with versioning', or so).

Ok, once we have pointer versioning and at least text merging
properly (preferably also xu vstream text merging, as it's better),
we should write a journal article about these things.

        Tuomas