[ge-talk] Files as Messages

[Waldemar Kornewald]

My dream was actually to better have a "live" DB of serializable objects 
(maybe in some scripting language?). Basically, something like a 
Smalltalk or Lisp image instead of "dead" partitions. Files would become 
objects with methods and slots (instead of attributes). For example, 
Person objects would be able to understand what an email-address or 
phone number is (again, other object types) and export special functions 
like input validation, calculated/virtual attributes, or "Call Person", 
etc.. Tracker would become an interactive object browser instead of a 
simple folder browser.

Buzz words...but you wanted to discuss something...

Bye,
Waldemar

Danny Robson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Long time with no activity on the list, so I thought I'd put forward a 
> quick and random thought. What if we treated all files as flattened 
> BMessages? Attributes could be thought of as fields of the message and 
> the data could be considered to be a special, 'magic' field.
> 
> I honestly have no idea what this could be useful for, but it sounded 
> interesting after 5 hours of driving and there hasn't been any posting 
> for a while :)
> 
> - Danny
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