Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 18:03 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:

> This is.  But what about foo.gz?  There are numerous other examples where it
> would be useful to have different facets which have (at least partly)
> overlapping operations, with different implementations (so just using any of
> them is not an option)

Yes. But even here you don't need to bind a name unless you need to
interact with an application that requires a path-based interface.

shap