Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Link with permissions

[tomas]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 05:51:14PM +0200, Robin Farine wrote:
> On Thursday 30 September 2004 16.59, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > This makes a lot of sense. And excuse my blindness. When I was
> > saying `platform' above it should be substituted for `use case',
> > which is far more generic.
> 
> I see no blindness ;). It is quite normal that it takes time for
> humans' thoughts to synchronize given the path
> 
>   thoughts_1 --> language --> thoughts_2
>              f()          g()
> 
>   where f() and g() are very complicated functions not well known
>   yet.

:-)

[...]

> I agree with the ad-hoc-ish character of the format. It merely
> serves as a way of illustrating concrete examples.

I thought that.

> > Maybe that's what I aimed at when proposing a way of storing
> > generic attributes [...]

> I get it now. Personally, I am all in favor of files using Tom's
> lisp-like extension languague. Each top-level list could define a
> group of attributes such as
> 
>     (colors
>         (foo red)
>         ...)
>     (permissions
>         (...)
>         ...)
>     ...

Yessir!

> I might get "killed" for this though.

Definitely not by me. I think it's just in the right direction.

Thanks

-- tomás

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