[AgileWiki] The Classifier/Ledger dualism

[Bill la F. <bil...@su...>]

Norm,

I know Rolonics is a quadism of wholeness/descriptors, 
partness/classifiers, structure/ledger and stream/journal, with the 
major dualisms being wholeness-partness and structure-stream.

With my earlier work on Quick, I am a past master of the 
structure-stream dualism, or at least major aspects of it.

I also remember having long talks with you about access control. The 
user name is a classifier, but Restrict and Private are descriptor 
entries. So access control is an aspect of the wholeness-partness domain.

But what I've only just come to understand is the partness-structure 
dualism. And I've been working with it for 6 years now! It is how you 
build knowledge structures. The classifiers are used to define the 
namespace and the ledgers reference names, though in the wiki the 
references are always in the document. But now we are supporting Ledger 
Entries of type pathname, and that will be more than handy for building 
application-specific structures.

So what else am I missing? This is only 3 of the 6 dualisms. 
Wholeness-structure seems realitively obvious. Wholeness-stream and 
partness-stream are a bit less obvious, but seem to apply to some of the 
streaming utilities. But I'd really like to hear more about these.

Bill