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 ===== Mirrors =====
-As we have already mentioned in the introduction, AmbientTalk uses a mirror-based architecture to provide reflective access to its objects. The basic principle of a mirror-based architecture is that all reflective facilities are encapsulated in a mirror object which provides reflective access to precisely one object, its reflectee. Moreover, the mirror of the object is not directly accessible as a slot of the object. Instead, a separate factory must be used to create mirrors, which allows the program to hand out different mirrors according to the dynamic call chain, the requesting object etc. The factory can be used implicitly using the ''reflect:'' primitive. Once a mirror has been created, it can be used for instance to produce a listing of an object's slots, as is exemplified below.
+AmbientTalk uses a mirror-based architecture to provide reflective access to its objects. The basic principle of a mirror-based architecture is that all reflective facilities are encapsulated in a mirror object which provides reflective access to precisely one object, its reflectee. Moreover, the mirror of the object is not directly accessible as a slot of the object. Instead, a separate factory must be used to create mirrors, which allows the program to hand out different mirrors according to the dynamic call chain, the requesting object etc. The factory can be used implicitly using the ''reflect:'' primitive. Once a mirror has been created, it can be used for instance to produce a listing of an object's slots, as is exemplified below.
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 Whereas the example provided above may seem a little contrived, the reflective capabilities of AmbientTalk allow it to be extended with many abstraction relating to distributed computing for mobile ad hoc networks (AmbientTalk's main domain of application). An example of a language construct which is conceived as a reflective extension to the language is for instance futures, which are discussed in the next chapter of this tutorial.
-===== Meta-Object Protocol =====
+===== The Metaobject Protocol =====
 The Meta-Object Protocol of AmbientTalk can be divided into a series of independent protocols. Whereas the full semantics and signature of the meta-methods can be found in the [[http://prog.vub.ac.be/amop/at2langref/edu/vub/at/objects/Object.html|language reference]], this section provides an overview of the various protocols.