Hans Reiser wrote:
Sean McGrath wrote:
Hans Reiser wrote:
Sean McGrath wrote:
The thing that interests me most is the difference (if any) between
giving a stream of bytes an opaque name e.g. "Chapter 1 of my
book.sxw" versus giving a stream of bytes a query expression that can
also be considered an opaque name e.g.
"/book/chapter[1] "
What is an opaque name?
By "opaque name" I mean a name that is purely a label. A name that
cannot be interpreted as a query expression.
Isn't query just another name for name?
That is a major philosophical nugget :-)
I recommend Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity:
http://www.answers.com/topic/saul-kripke
Sean
