Re: [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

Tuomas J. Lukka wrote:
> +One of the key innovations in storm is the use 
> +of *pointer blocks*
> +to build mutable documents on top of
> +the lowest-layer append-and-delete-only model.
> +A pointer block is simply a storm block which says
> +``The identifier X points to document Id, overriding 
> +the previous pointer blocks a, b`` and contains
> +a digital signature of the above information.

I understood from Eric's comments that the terms mutable/immutable 
aren't generally understood in connection with documents ('I didn't know 
that immutability had something to do with versioning', or so).

-b