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− | [[Category:Glossary]][[Category:Nodal Concepts]] | + | #redirect [[The State]] |
− | All [[node]]s can have non-nodal content like file-handles or objects associated with them similar to the way emails can have non-plain-text data as attchments. Every node exhibits such a ''state'' which is its encapsulation of the concept it represents ''in terms of the local [[Wikipedia:Runtime|runtime]] environment''. If the node has no representation in terms of the local environment, then a request of its state returns the local representation of ''void''.
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− | The [[peerd.c]] implementation maintains a list of pointers (the ''**pointers'' global variable) to non-nodal content. Node's values can be used as an index into the pointer list instead of as a [[node reference]]. | |