Re: file as a directory

From: Sean McGrath
Date: Tue May 10 2005 - 14:40:50 EST


Hans Reiser wrote:

Sean McGrath wrote:


Hans Reiser wrote:


Sean McGrath wrote:

The thing that interests me most is the difference (if any) between
giving a stream of bytes an opaque name e.g. "Chapter 1 of my
book.sxw" versus giving a stream of bytes a query expression that can
also be considered an opaque name e.g.
"/book/chapter[1] "



What is an opaque name?






By "opaque name" I mean a name that is purely a label. A name that
cannot be interpreted as a query expression.



Isn't query just another name for name?



That is a major philosophical nugget :-)

I recommend Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity:
http://www.answers.com/topic/saul-kripke

Sean


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