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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: file as a directory
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:52:24 -0700
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Sean McGrath wrote:

> Hans Reiser wrote:
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>> Sean McGrath wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>>
>>  
>>
> 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?

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> Sean
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