“Indirection” is pointing to something by name or reference, rather than pointing to the thing itself. Indirection is everywhere in computing. Pointers are indirection for a location in memory. Dynamic dispatch is indirection for procedures. URLs are indirection for IP addresses. Indirection is so fundamental, there’s an aphorism called FTSE, “
One level of indirection at each layer
One level of indirection at each layer
One level of indirection at each layer
“Indirection” is pointing to something by name or reference, rather than pointing to the thing itself. Indirection is everywhere in computing. Pointers are indirection for a location in memory. Dynamic dispatch is indirection for procedures. URLs are indirection for IP addresses. Indirection is so fundamental, there’s an aphorism called FTSE, “