Principles of Computer System Design

Chapter 3

The Design of Naming Schemes

Chapter Contents

Overview

3.1 Considerations in the design of naming schemes

3.1.1 Modular Sharing

3.1.2 Metadata and Name Overloading

3.1.3 Addresses: Names that Locate Objects

3.1.4 Generating Unique Names

3.1.5 Intended Audience and User-Friendly Names

3.1.6 Relative Lifetimes of Names, Values, and Bindings

3.1.7 Looking Back and Ahead: Names are a Basic System Component

3.2 Case Study: The Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

3.2.1 Surfing as a Referential Experience; Name Discovery

3.2.2 Interpretation of the URL

3.2.3 URL Case Sensitivity

3.2.4 Wrong Context References for a Partial URL

3.2.5 Overloading of Names in URLs

3.3 War stories: Pathologies in the Use of Names

3.3.1 A Name Collision Eliminates ...