files, names and files

[Devin Asay]

I can't add much to Richard's excellent explanations, except to  
confirm that for me as an ex-HyperCarder the indirect relationship  
between the name of the stack in the file system and the name  
property of the stack was confusing for a long while. Once I trained  
myself to refer to the entity represented in the file system as a  
"stackfile" and understand it was something different that the  
entities it contains -- main stacks and substacks -- the whole rev  
world became a lot clearer to me. In HyperCard there was a one-to-one  
relationship between the name of the stack and its name in the  
Finder: you changed one, you changed both. It was simpler, but I've  
found that Rev's way of handling it gives me freedom HyperCard did not.

Regards,

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University