On Wednesday 19 Aug 2009 11:07:29 am Ronald Spengler wrote:
> Ah, so the GC in the VM swizzles the pointers out from under you.
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1999-June/006170.htm
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This is the classic dilemma between name as an identifier and name as a 
locator. The word "pointer" connotes the latter but gets used widely in the 
former sense in Smalltalk code. Object Identifier (oid) is unambiguous but 
doesn't sound half as cool as oop ;-).

Subbu