Hi, On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:27:55PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> And wouldn't this option of accessing a file in two ways be an ideal > candidate > for namespace based translator selection? > > An example: > > $ ls blah,,dir/ > $ nano blah,,xml Certainly :-) I wonder though whether it wouldn't be useful also to simply allow opening a directory node as a file... This won't always work -- in some situations the explicit naming is really necessary, or at least clearer; but it seems to me that the directory/file duality could work well enough in many cases. The main problem I see here is deciding on the standard format for flattened directories -- some will want XML, some will want s-expr... Perhaps it's better to always explicitely specify it after all. > Btw. the main idea about containers was to reduce the metadata for > each single file, Yes, I understand that -- and the metadata redundancy is one of the reasons why I said that using fine-grained directory structures without some container mechanism would be too inefficient... Guess I wasn't clear enough. -antrik-
