Re: Directory listings and path names

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>   The whole idea of directories and paths presumes a tree structure.

The only reasonable way to split up a data structure that crosses
administrative domain boundaries is via a tree structure.

> URLs are more like unique names, where '/' is just another character.

Errr, no. URLs are tree structured.

> "a.com/b/c*.htm" is not meaningful as a URL (unless of course the server
> wants to give "b/c*.htm" some meaning).

It is, if you escape the "*". (Of course, you'll have a literal "*" in
the URL then.)

> Tree structured directories
> date from the days of tree structured databases.  They will eventually
> disappear.

I'm not holding my breath. ;-)

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