Re: Modifies vs. Replaces

[todd dot allen at ccur dot com (Todd Allen)]

> 
> "Augments" is slightly better than "modifies", perhaps, but I think
> something like "is appended (logically) to" or "is (logically) concatenated
> with" is better yet (much more explicit) for expressing what you propose.
> 
> I, of course, favor  "replaces" or (is used in place of" or some such as
> a possible way to express what I am advocating.
>
> That said, there remains (whether appending or replacing) to capture the
> notion of one location from a set of overlapping locations as being
> "primary" in the sense suggested by Jim -- if in fact you wish to
> incorporate that aspect into your proposal.
> 

I, too, still favor "replaces".

But if the group decides to go with the "augmentation" plan (and Jim's
"primary" concept in that case, hopefully), then it seems we'd need to
describe how an "effective location list" is produced by:

   concatenating the location list from the local copy/copies to the location
   list from the global (or perhaps in the opposite order, depending on how
   Jim's primary is determined), and also how a location description is
   interpreted as a location list with an address range which covers the
   whole program for this purpose.

-- 
Todd Allen
Concurrent Computer Corporation