From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Chan Subject: Re: [PATCH] "metas" in reiserfs v4 snapshot 2004.03.26 Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 14:07:55 -0400 Sender: news Message-ID: <87k70ru0ec.fsf@uhoreg.ca> References: <200404050401.i3541XVk004592@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> <87fzbj9fws.fsf@uhoreg.ca> <200404051222.07071.marcelo@macp.eti.br> <4072BEEF.9060802@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com >>>>> "Hans" == Hans Reiser writes: Hans> New users hate languages with lots of punctuation in the keywords. Hans> Mr. Demidov correctly reminded me of this, and of the history of Hans> users hating such languages, and this caused me to abandon ..metas Hans> for metas. Mr Demidov, can you say more about this history? Well, I don't know exactly what Mr. Demidov was thinking, but I know that one common complaint about Perl is the punctuation in front of variable names. However, for UNIX filesystems, there's a lot of precedent for at least a single leading dot in filenames, so I don't think it should be a problem to call it ".metas". It is also not something that would be extremely common, so it wouldn't be like having a Perl program pocked with punctuation. (Alliteration unintentional.) The leading dot also flags the file as being somewhat "special" -- two leading dots would flag it as being more so. Although my own personal sense of aesthetics is biased against two dots, using two dots would be well justified, and I personally wouldn't consider it a critical issue. -- Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.