On Aug 23, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Stewart Stremler wrote:
Nah. It's a "drawer", of course. :)
If we're using a metaphor of containment, we should use terms that
*contain* things. Directories -- in RL -- are not containers.
The term "directory" was not initially used to denote a container,
but merely an object that can be used to determine something's location.
"Nested" directories are simply directories that the seeker is
referred to from another directory. We silly humans like to think in
tree/root diagrams or container metaphors, but that's not really
what's going on. Even the trees we learn about in CS algorithms are
really just large intra-referring directory collections, when you
think about it.
Amusingly, working with LDAP in anger really clarifies this thinking.
Gregory
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