Message-Id: <m0p16fZ-00030GC@rip.psg.com>
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
Subject: Re: Question about nested structure
To: winograd@interval.com (Terry Winograd)
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 20:45:05 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <9311210058.AA02476@interval.interval.com> from "Terry Winograd" at Nov 20, 93 04:57:38 pm
Two other matters of nesting concern me, one of which your approach handles.
That is the matter of consistent naming. E.g. Last-Modified-Handle as
opposed to Record-Last-Modified-Handle, both of which occur now, might
become
...
modification_info (
( handle "RB366" )
( date "Fri, Oct 29 93 08:36:23 PDT" )
... )
...
The other is that I hear rumors that the handles are not shorthand
references to either other items in the file, e.g.
o SERVICES.Admin-Handle is not a USER.Handle
o SITEINFO.Owner-Organization-Handle is not an ORGANIZATION.Handle
or to more global handles
o USER.Handle is not a NIC handle
So I am unsure if I have hold of anything if I have a handle.
And if someone says that the handles are to be URNs, I'll ...
This stuff has not ripened, I am quite confused as usual, or both.