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Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 13:11:57 -0700
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Sean McGrath wrote:

>
>>>> 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
>
>
>
>
I suggest considering your opaque names to be what reiser4 calls "keys",
that is, names that exist for the purpose of finding the object via the
storage layer.

Hans
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