In Section 24.5.1 when discussing naming transparency, we proposed the use of aliases to uniquely identify each replica of each fragment. Provide an outline design for the implementation of this approach to naming transparency.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

FUNCTION map(name)
{
IF name appears in the replica table
THEN
result = name of replica of name;
IF name appears in the fragment table
THEN {
result = expression to construct fragment;
FOR each iname IN result {
replace iname in result with map(iname);
}
}
RETURN result;
}
IF name appears in the alias table
THEN
expression = map(name);
ELSE
expression = name;