Re: More from the Weekday Warriors

[Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>]

On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:47:32 -0800, Peter van Hardenberg <pvh@uvic.ca> said:

[...]

> Hans, I like the idea that files should be (for those who want it)
> treatable indistinguishably from directories. The contained-by would
> get very tedious with deep nesting, as that is already how the /
> translates for me.

> I propose this:

> files /are/ a normal directory (for resources) and /have/ an invisible
> subdirectory (for attributes) (perhaps "fivedot"?).

I don't know how hard it would be, but I think it would be best to make
your code as generic as possible, so that it can be changed to make
subfiles accessible as robert/hat-size, robert/...../hat-size, etc.
(I'm not saying that it should be accessible by those names at the same
time, but it should be possible to, say, make a 10-line change in the
code to switch it from one to the other.)

Intuition is great, and I don't want to downplay it, but IMHO sometimes
it may be more revealing to actually try things out and see how it
works.

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