Isn't the obvious answer to use indirect addressing via a directory?
John Carlson wrote:
To put the problem in entirely file system terminology, What happens
to a folder with shortcuts into it when you move the folder? How
does one automatically repoint the shortcuts? Has this problem been
solved in computer science? On linux, the shortcuts would be
symbolic links.
I had a dream about smallstar when I was thinking about this. The
author was essentially asking me how to fix it. He was showing me a
hierarchy, then he moved part of the hierarchy into a subfolder and
asked me how to automate it--especially the links to the original
hierarchy.
In language terms, this would be equivalent of refactoring a class
which gets dropped down into an inner class. This might be solved.
I'm not sure.
This would be a great problem to solve on the web as well...does
Xanadu do this?
I think the solution is to maintain non-persistent nodes which are
computed at access time, but I'm not entirely clear.
I have no idea why I am posting this to cap-talk. There may be some
capability issues that I haven't thought of yet. Or perhaps the
capability folks have already solved this.
For your consideration,
John Carlson
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