Re: Do xml-like namespaces make sense for Reiser4? (re: metas thread)

["John D. Heintz" <jheintz@pobox.com>]

Hans Reiser wrote:

> John D. Heintz wrote:
>
>>
>> Does some sort of syntactic shorthand actually break the set 
>> theoretic naming system rules?  Or is this just something you view as 
>> needless complexity?
>
>
> precisely what syntactic shorthand?



foo/nsa:permissions -> foo/nsa.gov/secure-linux/permissions

This assumes a mapping from "nsa" -> "nsa.gov/security/".

The characters up to the ':' would be looked up in a namespaces map, and 
if found the substituion would occur before further name-> object 
resolution. I don't think this breaks the goals set out in the "Future 
Vision" white paper, but I guess that is exactly what I am asking you ;-)

John