> From: Christian Vogt <[email protected]>
> In particular, "topological sensitivity" could be defined as either or
> both of the following:
> (1) as the property of being used in path selection.
> (2) as the property of encoding a path, strictly or loosely.
I don't really like the second, because although paths may be given in terms
of a series of locators, locators also are used in other ways.
To use a real-world example, the real-world 'locator':
123 High Street,
Bigtown,
Green County,
Outer Luvania
just names a particular _place_ - and says _nothing_ about _any_ paths to it
(although one would usually expect all paths to it to eventually travel along
High Street, etc).
In general, my real-world analogue for 'locator' (at least, in terms of their
_functionality) is 'street address' - and so, when thinking about properties
of locators, I tend to use street addresses as a mental model. I would suggest
we could all benefit from doing the same.
Noel
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