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Re: file as a directory

From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:39:33 +0100
Organization: Propylon
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>
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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.

Sean

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