From baca6eb4c6202df4d365d002c848c24f7df7aa62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Torsten Ruger <torsten@villataika.fi>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 16:06:38 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] rename string to word

---
 lib/parfait.rb        |  2 +-
 lib/parfait/string.rb |  6 ------
 lib/parfait/word.rb   | 12 ++++++++++++
 lib/virtual/object.rb |  5 +++--
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 lib/parfait/string.rb
 create mode 100644 lib/parfait/word.rb

diff --git a/lib/parfait.rb b/lib/parfait.rb
index e28d467c..72eb645d 100644
--- a/lib/parfait.rb
+++ b/lib/parfait.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ require "parfait/module"
 require "parfait/class"
 require "parfait/dictionary"
 require "parfait/list"
-require "parfait/string"
+require "parfait/word"
 require "parfait/message"
 require "parfait/frame"
 require "parfait/space"
diff --git a/lib/parfait/string.rb b/lib/parfait/string.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 05d1d7f9..00000000
--- a/lib/parfait/string.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-
-
-module Parfait
-  class String < Object
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/parfait/word.rb b/lib/parfait/word.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f0ec1c06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/parfait/word.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+
+
+module Parfait
+  # A word is a a short sequence of characters
+  # Characters are not modeled as objects but as (small) integers
+  # The small means two of them have to fit into a machine word, iw utf16 or similar
+  #
+  # Words are constant, maybe like js strings, ruby symbols
+  # Words are short, but may have spaces
+  class Word < Object
+  end
+end
diff --git a/lib/virtual/object.rb b/lib/virtual/object.rb
index 8cf50989..5218cb4d 100644
--- a/lib/virtual/object.rb
+++ b/lib/virtual/object.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ module Positioned
     @position
   end
   def set_position pos
-    # resetting of position used to be error, but since relink and dynamic instruction size it is ok. in measures
+    # resetting of position used to be error, but since relink and dynamic instruction size it is ok.
+    # in measures (of 32)
     if @position != nil and ((@position - pos).abs > 32)
       raise "position set again #{pos}!=#{@position} for #{self}"
     end
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ end
     Virtual::Object.new.padded_words(length())
   end
 end
-::Parfait::String.class_eval do
+::Parfait::Word.class_eval do
   include Positioned
   def layout
     Virtual::Object.layout