[I found this email in my 'saved drafts' folder; I think I've mentioned my unordered tags experiments before, but I figured I'd send this off anyway.]
Discussing next-gen journal designs, I often bring up 'ordered tags' as a necessary way to make the journal cooperate better with filesystems. The response usually is that additional context is sufficient to disambiguate tag sets, you don't actually need ordering. That is, it's okay if a/b is indistinguishable from b/a -- in practice one will really be c/a/b and the other will be b/a/d or whatever, and you can use the extra tag 'c' or 'd' to disambiguate. I ran a script over the complete contents of my laptop's filesystem, and I was rather surprised that the responders were correct: I have few files on my filesystem which would be indistiguishable with completely unordered paths. More details at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Experiments_with_unordered_paths --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
