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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada
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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:32:32 +0200
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On 2017-08-27 16:44, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 14:35:59 +0200, "Dmitry A. Kazakov"
> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> declaimed the following:
> 
>> I never ever saw relational or networked file system directory
>> structure, aside from very early academic attempts. The reality is that
> 
> 	No hard and/or soft-links used anywhere? (Or Windows "reparse points"
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365503(v=vs.85).aspx
> or "mounted folders"
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365237(v=vs.85).aspx

BTW "hierarchical" was not my choice word. It is actually "acyclic 
directed graph" (after removing pseudo-nodes like "." and ".."). That is 
what Ada.Directories is supposed to comply with, at least when looking 
at its present interface.

P.S. There is probably no requirement to test if two nodes are same. I 
don't know why OSes have problems with that, but some seemingly do. 
Nominal equivalence is OK for most applications.

P.P.S. I still don't see how anything of this could possibly justify 
strings. More complex it gets even less suitable strings become.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de