@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@ Gall vane documentation is a useful reference. In particular, the whole
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1515## `vase`
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17−Urbit needs to be able to send typed data between vanes and agents, as well as
18−over the network to other ships. While cell structures can easily be validated,
19−atom auras cannot. To solve this problem, Urbit wraps such data in a vase before
20−sending it. Vases are used extensively - almost all data your agent will send
17+Vases are used to encapsulate _dynamically typed_ data - they let typed data be
18+moved around in contexts where you can't know the type ahead of time, and
19+therefore can't have a _static_ type.
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21+Vases are used extensively - almost all data your agent will send
2122and received is wrapped in a vase.
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2324A vase is just a cell with data in the tail and the type of the data in the