Default database / namespace

[Norman Hardy]

At 21:50 -0400 00/07/03, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

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>In rejecting a global namespace, I want to be clear that I do not reject
>shared namespaces in general. If you and I wish to share a common directory,
>one of us can build the directory and ship a capability to it to the other
>*provided* that we are authorized to communicate. This is a fine design
>pattern.  However, there is absolutely no reason why your name for that
>directory and mine need to agree (though this raises a secondary design
>issue of "environment variables").
>

I wrote a few notes at
<http://www.mediacity.com/~norm/CapTheory/KK/environVar.html> about
environment variables in a capability system. Also some issues with
fetching behavior over comm links.
Norman Hardy  <http://www.mediacity.com/~norm>