From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-04-22T00:09:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Facets 0.6.3

On 4/21/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Legal doesn't mean it's a good idea.
> You're right Austin. Perhaps a good idea would be to pressure file
> system developers to give files two fields: one a File Key and
> another a File Title, so we can have both usages. Or will that in
> itself cause worse problems?

It won't cause worse problems, but it won't help with the bane of
all computer scientists.

Legacy systems.

A DBFS can help with this, certainly, but it won't solve it.

I meant to send a reply to this thread long before that said
essentially what I said above, PLUS:

* I can't find the message reference right now, but I seem to recall
  that Matz indicated that "require 'foo/bar'" requires the
  *resource* "foo/bar", similar to the way that in Perl "using
  Foo::Bar;" uses that resource. Thus, it might be worth an RCR to
  do some limited translation on certain characters so that they are
  safe for all operating systems. Then, you could do require
  'facets/nil?' and it would load the resource "facets/nil%3f".

This would place a burden on the developer to make sure that the
file is saved as nil%3f.rb, but it would work.

-austin
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