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…r to scope The `&` is now a reference and the slot that holds an object its owner; "guest" had no natural verb, so rules about what may point at what were written as "guested". The store rule's lifetime, which used to be called the owner, is now a place's scope, so a block is never called an owner. "Reference type" keeps its name: it is the kind of type a reference names. Sweeps spec/, the contributing guides (dropping anchor/tether as live terms, adding naming guide §2.6-2.7 and spec guide §6.6), CLAUDE.md guards, and the bench labels and notes, with the generated bench files re-rendered from the pinned JSON. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LVcwVbgFx3JbCoKCyBC6HY
Appends the memory story chapter recording why `guest` was dropped (no verb; "visit" reads as a dereference; link, pointer, pin and the rest each lighter than the rule), why `reference` could share its root with `reference type`, why `host` became `owner`, and why the store rule's lifetime became `scope` rather than "owning scope". Adds supersession notes to the chapters that named host/guest, settled's register, and the lifetime owner, and Story pointers from memory.md §2.1 and §2.4 and lifetimes.md §1.1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LVcwVbgFx3JbCoKCyBC6HY
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request updates memory-model terminology across specifications, guidance, stories, and benchmark materials. It uses “owner,” “reference,” and “scope” in place of earlier terms, renames benchmark helper identifiers, and adds terminology checks and naming guidance. ChangesTerminology alignment
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This pull request performs a comprehensive terminology refactoring across the Zane specification, stories, benchmarks, and naming guides. It replaces the hospitality-themed terms 'host' and 'guest' with 'owner' and 'reference' (using the '&' sigil), and renames the lifetime 'owner' to 'scope' to align with lexical scopes. The review feedback is highly constructive, pointing out a few instances of British spelling ('travelling') that should be updated to American spelling ('traveling') for consistency, an abruptly ending sentence in the naming terms guide, a parameter name in the benchmark code that needs updating to match the renamed type, and minor grammatical and phrasing improvements in the memory specification.
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- Line 188: Update the story-marker exclusion in the terminology-check pipeline
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"Guest" has no natural verb, so the spec kept forcing one ("may be guested", "nothing guests it"). Its central rule therefore read badly every time it appeared. This PR renames the memory-model vocabulary:
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spec/: every doc is swept, including the glossary entries and their "why this name" lines. Some passages were reworded rather than word-swapped, so that a block is never called an owner ("one scope holds both"). "Single hosting" became "single ownership".memory.mdnow distinguishes boxing by moves versus copies instead of hosts versus owns. The old "guest parameter" is now "&Tparameter".contributing/:anchorandtetheras current terms.&slot is an "&field" or "&Tparameter", never a "reference field".CLAUDE.md: three new checks, for guest and host, for the old lifetime sense of owner, and for the §6.6 wording.bench/: renamed labels, identifiers and notes. The pinned JSON changed only in its label strings, and the generated files were re-rendered with--from-file, so no new measurements were taken.stories/memory.md: appends the chapter "Owner and reference replace host and guest, and the store rule compares scopes". It adds supersession notes to the merged chapters whose naming claims this retires (including one instories/lifetimes.md), and Story pointers frommemory.md§2.1, §2.4 andlifetimes.md§1.1.All
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