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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:20:34 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Interested in improving networking in Plan 9
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> 2009/8/31 Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>:
> > But this is nasty!
> > % cat ndb/dom/'' # same as ndbquery dom ''
>
> No, the nasty part is really that the file should be called `.' and
> the filesystem reserves dot as the reference to the current directory.
> You could probably call the file `dot' or `root' (cat ndb/dom/dot or
> cat ndb/dom/root) as something that shouldn't ever conflict with
> anything else -- but the root of DNS is not an empty string.

aren't you being a little bit pedantic?  quoting is a fact
of life.  we don't say that it's evil to need to quote or
transform things in rc or smtp to deal with local requirements.
why would it be evil to quote '.'?  and why would be calling
'.' 'root' or 'dot' rather than '' be any less evil?

- erik