On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:33:38AM +1030, Antony Blakey wrote: > Why not just do the MD5 and be done with it - erlang:md5(Data) -> Digest ? You > remove any limit on the name of a design document, or, for that matter, a > database (well, it can't be empty, but then that isn't a name, and obeys > 0,1,∞). I think you've already agreed that URL encoding is a good idea, so > this is hardly much effort.
Because this introduces an inconsistency on the file system. Some databases are held by name, some by hash. This disagrees with me on æsthetic grounds. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
