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Re: a problem with terminology
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- Subject: Re: a problem with terminology
- From: Derick Eddington <derick.eddington@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:36:02 -0800
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On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 22:08 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> In my opinion, the use of "search path" is unproblematic, provided it
> isn't nestled together with sense-1 paths. I would just call those
> "filenames"
I think the more precise terms I mentioned should be used.
> and say straight out that this srfi establishes a syntax for
> filenames.
Okay, I'll incorporate such a statement.
> (In Unix--and let's be clear, this is really a Unix
> srfi--
It's a Unixoid and Windows SRFI, yes.
> directories *are* files
Regardless, they are semantically different and should be termed as
such, IMO.
Thanks for the feedback,
--
: Derick
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