From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sean McGrath Subject: Re: file as a directory Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:39:24 +0100 Message-ID: <42810DEC.8030902@propylon.com> References: <2c59f00304112205546349e88e@mail.gmail.com> <41A1FFFC.70507@hist.no> <41A21EAA.2090603@dbservice.com> <41A23496.505@namesys.com> <1101287762.1267.41.camel@pear.st-and.ac.uk> <1115717961.3711.56.camel@grape.st-and.ac.uk> <4280CAEF.5060202@namesys.com> <1115739129.3711.117.camel@grape.st-and.ac.uk> <4280E1A9.3010703@propylon.com> <4280EEA7.9080403@namesys.com> <4280F1D5.3060607@propylon.com> <428102E8.2020509@namesys.com> Reply-To: sean.mcgrath@propylon.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: <428102E8.2020509@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Hans Reiser Cc: Peter Foldiak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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