• To: <bill.dehora@p...>,"'Jeff Lowery'" <jlowery@s...>,"'Mike Champion'" <mc@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Reality check needed ....
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:13:31 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <001e01c23dec$60063170$1fc8c8c8@mitchum>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> > From: Jeff Lowery
> > > ...
> > > Anything
> > > that sees the end of the three-character file extension
> > must be a step
> > > forward. ...
> > > Michael Kay
> > 
> > You really want to remove the markup from the file names?
> 
I'm not sure if your question is real or ironic.

I had assumed it was obvious to everyone in this community that names,
in general, should not carry implicit information about the objects they
refer to: or at any rate, that there are better ways of representing
this information than packing it into three bytes of the name.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@n...
work: Michael.Kay@s... 

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