Runtime Object and Node Identifiers
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Scope and source boundary
Distinguish a conceptual identifier from a runtime object reference and from a generated binding handle.
Names, identifiers, and runtime handles serve different purposes. The LaTeX guidance distinguishes human-readable and formal model names, semantic identity scoped by context, and handles used by execution or interop. Treating these as interchangeable makes evolution, serialization, and cross-context integration fragile.
Engineering rules
- Declare the owning context of a business identity.
- Do not infer permanent semantic identity from a memory address, UI label, or temporary handle.
- Document how formal names are projected into generated implementation names.
- Make identity stability and collision behavior explicit before distributed exchange.
Chapter outline (original LaTeX headings)
- Conceptual Identity
- Instance Identity
- Relation Identity and this
- Entity Identity and me
- Context
- Conceptual Scope
LaTeX provenance
Primary chapter: Declarative Conceptual Programming with the logiCells Platform/developer-guide/chapters/identity-context-and-conceptual-scope.tex.