On 2009-11-23, at 7:26 AM, Colin Putney wrote:

> One thing that is interesting is that they use URIs, with made-up schema that map to their filesystem providers. So a Reference to a file in a MemoryFilesystem would have a url like
> 
> 	ram:/path/to/my/file.
> 
> And files inside zip archives look like:
> 
> 	file:///path/to/archive.zip!/path/to/file
> 
> Java folks expect to us URIs everywhere. I wonder how well that would work in Smalltalk.

I'll play broken record, and say yes we did this in Sophie. All resource references to file like things was via URI. 
We also did the "made-up schema" so that we could refer to cached memory files versus  http: or file: 


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