Whither the AFPP?

[Kosyrev Serge]

Good day!

If there is an interest in prior art, /and/ there is a motivation in
making things future-proof, there is that somewhat elaborate construction
coming from Common Lisp:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node203.html

Quoting:
> The main difficulty in dealing with names of files is that different
> file systems have different naming formats for files.
>
> ...
>
> Therefore, Common Lisp provides two ways to represent file names:
> namestrings, which are strings in the implementation-dependent form
> customary for the file system, and pathnames, which are special abstract
> data objects that represent file names in an implementation-independent
> way.

A particularly intriguing passage, personally, is the following one:

> In order to allow Common Lisp programs to operate in a network
> environment that may have more than one kind of file system, the
> pathname facility allows a file name to specify which file system is to
> be used. In this context, each file system is called a host, in keeping
> with the usual networking terminology.
>
> ...
>
> Different hosts may use different notations for file names.  Common Lisp
> allows customary notation to be used for each host, but also supports a
> system of logical pathnames that provides a standard framework for
> naming files in a portable manner.

I.e. if one squints hard enough, and reads between the lines, some
shades of network transparent naming could be seen..

--
с уважениeм / respectfully,
Косырев Сергей
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