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Rephrasing distinction between variable and object

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I found the text as written slightly misleading. The phrase "referenced by a value" intends to describe a state of being; generally, a value *is* a reference. One might misinterpret this English phrase, though, as describing an action that can occur: "reference" being an action that a value can perform, like "walk", "jump", or "skip". Further, because objects aren't limited to holding merely those data that some variable references, I thought it improved reading to remove that qualification.
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Jason Hemann 2021-05-29 14:21:00 -04:00 committed by Matthew Flatt
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@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ modifies the content of a vector.
To explain such modifications to data, we must distinguish between
@tech{values}, which are the results of expressions, and
@deftech{objects}, which hold the data referenced by a value.
@deftech{objects}, which actually hold data.
A few kinds of @tech{objects} can serve directly as values, including
booleans, @racket[(void)], and small exact integers. More generally,