On 29-Jun-2001 Rocco Caputo wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:54:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> For those of you who aren't on IRC, here is a list of different schemes
>> for doing addressing in POE and beyond.
>>
>> http://pied.nu/Perl/addresses.txt
>>
>> Anyone have other ideas? Any preferences?
>
> URI style isn't transparent. Ideally, a program shouldn't need to
> know whether it's talking to a poe thingy or a stem thingy, so
> everything up to the colon gets in the way.
>
> I'm partial to kernel/session/event, where kernel/ and kernel/session
> can just be left off if they're not needed:
>
> kernel/session/event
> session/event
> event
Given a plain scallar, taken out of context (say in the doco, or in email,
or in a tuple-space), how do you tell if it's a session, kernel or event?
session/
kernel//
Yes, these are also very useful.
> There's only one reserved character, and the number of fields in the
> address determines how far away its destination is.
Nice.
> I think it scales, too:
> universe/galaxy/solarsystem/planet/cluster/kernel/session/event
>
> Oh, this is just a bang path in disguise. Whee! "/" is a little
> easier to type than "!", anyway.
IHNJ, IJLS BANG PATH
!Philip
