Handles

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One of the most important data types in GEOS is the handle . There are many different types of handles serving many different purposes. However, they all have one or both of these traits: they provide an unchanging reference to a changing (or moving) thing, and they allow geodes to access and manipulate indirectly certain structures which are maintained as internal to the kernel.

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  2 The Global Handle Table
  3 Local Handles

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