Re: [9fans] directly opening Plan9 devices

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

As I read it, rob seems to disagree with you:

> # file names were just a hack to get started - literally to get started.
They were a place holder until a better idea came along.  None has.
>
> # was never considered a great idea; I just needed some way to
name an unnamed resource.  I deliberately chose # as the character
because it's the comment character in the shell and therefore is
really irritating to use.

http://9fans.net/archive/2003/02/832

Still, clearly to this day nobody has come up with a fully
satisfactory design to replace #, and certainly not an implementation
of any such design.

Seems that despite the many years of thinking, this is still a tricky
problem, and # has turned out to be 'good enough' to keep any
alternative from appearing.

Peace

uriel

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:41 PM,  <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>> No one has yet offered a working, cleaner idea.
>
> I think it is a working, perfectly clean idea, myself.  It's a
> namespace of its own and there are only a very few inconsistencies
> within it, well justified by the very nature of the namespace.  That
> minor nits such as #s and #| being a bit off the paradigm apply
> suggests that some aspects could be given more thought, but they do
> not invalidate the usefulness and consistency of the design.  Rather,
> they show a surprising maturity for something that probably did not
> get too many iterations.
>
> ++L
>
>
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