From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John D. Heintz" Subject: Re: Do xml-like namespaces make sense for Reiser4? (re: metas thread) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:47:12 -0500 Message-ID: <407C35B0.3080109@pobox.com> References: <407AB9AE.3060801@pobox.com> <407ADCBF.8000609@namesys.com> <407AEA05.50004@pobox.com> <407BFBEA.5010006@pobox.com> <407C15D9.1080705@namesys.com> <407C1BE9.8010509@pobox.com> <407C279A.3060303@namesys.com> <407C3004.3070401@pobox.com> <407C316B.80606@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <407C316B.80606@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Hans Reiser Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.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