Re: [RFC] Pathname Semantics with //

[Hans Reiser]

David Dabbs wrote:
 

Use of : in addition to / is a bad idea, see The Hideous Name by Rob
Pike for why.
Hans
   

I've read The Hideous Name, and I think you're taking Pike out of context.
He wrote that document when device files were still only a part of a
research version of UNIX. His main point is that programs should not be
saddled with understanding physical devices when constructing filenames.
No, it was more than that.  It was that hierarchy requires only one 
delimiter.