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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] blanks in file names 
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Sun,  7 Jul 2002 20:38:29 -0400
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| If '/' is prohibitted as an element of file name and directory name,
| then no change to open is required.
| 
| Let's assume we accept '/' as an element of names,
| then how do you express path in rc?
 
cd (stl list/vector foo)

I think this discussion is verging on reinventing lisp, where you have a
well specified format for textually representing data, standard primatives
for reading and writing it, and a set of datatypes to store it in.