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Janet asks, "Well given that we can dynamically respecify datanames to point to either variables or functions at runtime, what happens if we have two threads, and one makes FRED <:: avariable and the other makes FRED <:: afunction" ? Well the answer is a CoW! Copy-on-Write. We make a copy on the particular thread's stack or thread-local heap, of any alteration which is done by a thread which disagrees with the "static" value of that item. Because each thread is checkpointed by ::CKPT::, this CoW is persistent, and survives a reboot :) And it can be LISTed and EDITed in the ESC editor of course (choose the particular thread you want).
