Caching?

[Richard Gaskin]

Wilhelm Sanke wrote:

> I observed the same behavior, i.e. if a card has not yet been opened 
> during a session then "stack" will be returned as the owner - even when 
> the background in question is indeed owned by the card. In the 
> discussion we had on this list (or the Run list) one or two years ago I 
> had proposed  to introduce something like "the effective owner of 
> background x".

Or just have object references work consistently.  The current situation 
is rather like saying my name is "Richard" as long as we're talking in 
person, but if we're communicating via email call me "Joe". :)

An object descriptor should be an object descriptor, regardless of when 
it's used.

This anomaly could be why Scott Raney used to recommend parsing the long 
ID to find an owner rather than using "the owner".  That seemed weird to 
me at the time, but now that I see "the owner" is at least semi-broken 
in some cases I understand why.

PS: Tariel, I owe you a couple emails.  Just been swamped with a hellish 
project; I look forward to writing you soon.

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