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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: file as a directory
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 10:25:59 -0700
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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?