On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 9:12 PM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > But people, when unrestrained, will /always/ want to do something that may > not be practical. For example, why bother with the separate concepts > 'filename' and 'file'; just have the file contents /as/ the filename! If > there are no limits on how long a filename is or what characters it can > have, then people will take advantage. >
This is possible. It's called a "content-based file system", and it's the basis of tools like git, for example. But it's not the entire solution; you still need some way to tell a program which blob to react to. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
