Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261754AbVEJTja (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 15:39:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261753AbVEJTjX (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 15:39:23 -0400 Received: from mail01.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net ([159.134.118.17]:59909 "HELO mail01.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261742AbVEJTjR (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 15:39:17 -0400 Message-ID: <42810DEC.8030902@propylon.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:39:24 +0100 From: Sean McGrath Reply-To: sean.mcgrath@propylon.com Organization: Propylon User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Reiser CC: Peter Foldiak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: file as a directory 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> In-Reply-To: <428102E8.2020509@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1047 Lines: 49 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/