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by masklinn 4434 days ago
> If I had to guess, I'd say "box" is a reference to "boxed values"

Yes, that's the start of it but it was expanded to multiple box classes (and maybe eventually user-defined ones) rather than just boxed and unboxed values: a developer can currently use box(HEAP) and box(GC) (a bare `box` is an alias for `box(HEAP)`)