State

All nodes 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 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.

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.