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8note
51 days ago
> affine ownership
huh? you can rotate and scale the ownership?
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AlotOfReading
50 days ago
Affine as in substructural linear types. They correspond to linear logic [0], and affine logic is named such because the way it's defined corresponds to affine functions. You don't literally need to scale your pointers though.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_logic
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_logic