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Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:39:33 +0100
From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@propylon.com>
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To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: file as a directory
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Hans Reiser wrote:

>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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>
>  
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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.

Sean


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