How to waste computer memory?

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Fri Mar 18 22:30:57 EDT 2016


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016, at 20:55, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> > Also, special-casing '\0' and '/' is
> > lame. Why can't I have "Results 1/2016" as a filename?
> 
> Would you be allowed to have a directory named "Results 1" as well?

If I were designing a new operating from scratch and didn't have to be
compatible with anything, I would probably have pathnames be tuples of
strings (maybe represented at the low level with percent-escaping),
rather than having a directory separator.



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