Hans Reiser wrote: > Narcoleptic Electron wrote: > > >What is the plan for addressing the name clash > >problems that this causes? (eg. I copy a > >directory, > >that happens to contain a "metas" directory, to my > >Reiser4 partition) > > these problems will not exist significantly in > reality. Look at netapps > and snapshots and clearcase and other filesystems, I > remember wondering > if .snapshot could be a problem when netapps were > new and it was never a > problem.
I do not disagree that it is unlikely. However, it is still possible, so my question remains: what happens in the scenario I describe? > People who find it is a problem can #define it to > something else. If 5 > people bother to do so, I will be surprised. True; as long as everyone refers to the "metas" directory properly (using an environment variable, for example, as opposed to hard-coding the string "metas" anywhere), it will be fine. > Many languages have reserved keywords..... We're not talking about a language here, though... we're talking about a namespace. To me, the measure of usefulness of a namespace is the ability to provide names... reserved words hamper that ability. The perfect namespace has no reserved words; at worst, only reserved characters, with escape sequences provided for each so that any name is still possible. ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
