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In message <4A56FC7C.8060107@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:

>1. I clearly stated that the name is experimental and that a change in
>the future is possible.

But what on earth is the point ??

You want to _avoid_ people testing your code ?

>4. While feelings may have been hurt 12 years ago, life did, in fact, go
>on.

Yes, after a considerable number of "My system cannot find its harddisk
any more" support emails.

I'm all for unifying the namespace, but still remember how much pain
the "didn't find that disk, lets renumber all of the rest of them"
causes, so I tend to prefer physically bound names.

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