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Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 20:17:20 +1000
From: Bruce Ellis <brucee@chunder.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] acme: some thoughts about design
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directed, of course - that's what walk does.
but not necessarily acyclic, unless you have
a really uninteresting namespace.  that's why
cp -r is fraught with peril.

brucee

a@9srv.net wrote:
> i don't think anybody's seriously questioning the general
> utility of search capabilities. but the directed graph we
> currently have is very useful for all sorts of things. it
> is, for example, a very "natural" (but see later) layout
> for source trees and related documentation.