Re: [gnugo-devel] terminology question

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> I find this very counter-intuitive and confusing, and I can find no
> single instance in the code where "worm" would be used in this sense.
> See e.g. build_worms().
> 
> Can we agree that a worm consists of stones? The subtle difference between
> worm and strings is then that worms live only at stackp == 0...

This is very old history and the doc can be changed. So worm and string
are synonyms in current usage.

Dan