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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2003-10-07T12·27+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2003-10-07T12·27+0000
commit5d4171f7fb548e06ecd2440f57322b3c77f1074e (patch)
tree06f21a5e6dcf38943f58f7e32f4a23f5bed41da7 /src/globals.hh
parent563afb7fcc9d6aabec9b867372ea8d651fd12e89 (diff)
* Synchronise terminology with the ICSE paper (e.g., slice -> closure,
  fstate -> Nix expression).
* Fix src/test.cc.

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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/globals.hh b/src/globals.hh
index 107d617bc895..b140f136c9cb 100644
--- a/src/globals.hh
+++ b/src/globals.hh
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ extern TableId dbId2Paths;
 /* dbSuccessors :: FSId -> FSId
 
    Each pair $(id_1, id_2)$ in this mapping records the fact that a
-   successor of an fstate expression stored in a file with identifier
+   successor of a Nix expression stored in a file with identifier
    $id_1$ is stored in a file with identifier $id_2$.
 
    Note that a term $y$ is successor of $x$ iff there exists a
@@ -41,15 +41,14 @@ extern TableId dbSuccessors;
 /* dbSubstitutes :: FSId -> [FSId]
 
    Each pair $(id, [ids])$ tells Nix that it can realise any of the
-   fstate expressions referenced by the identifiers in $ids$ to
+   Nix expressions referenced by the identifiers in $ids$ to
    generate a path with identifier $id$.
 
    The main purpose of this is for distributed caching of derivates.
    One system can compute a derivate with hash $h$ and put it on a
    website (as a Nix archive), for instance, and then another system
    can register a substitute for that derivate.  The substitute in
-   this case might be an fstate expression that fetches the Nix
-   archive. 
+   this case might be a Nix expression that fetches the Nix archive.
 */
 extern TableId dbSubstitutes;