Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd

[Tom Bachmann]

Patrick Negre wrote:
> I have read all the thread on DogsCows, and i can't see why it's not possible 
> to avoid binding views to new names.
>
> Where the following construction is false or unusable ?

I did not look whether they are false or unusable, but the basic 
challenge is how we can make legacy apps that are not aware of polytype 
files fit into the system. In you proposal, the default facet of a 
.tar.bz2 file would be the actualy untranslated/compressed content of 
the file. But what if I want a legacy application to browse the file 
like a directory? Or how could even new apps exchange file names without 
abiguity?
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