According to Ken Fox:
The question is what methods does core need to talk to metadata magic?
How about these for a start:
meta -- support regex searches with metadata qualifiers
I suspect you mean "search" or "query" here.
after_change -- sync metadata with data changes
Did you expect after_change() to take parameters indicating what range
was replaced with what new range? I think that's relevant. :-)
before_change -- let metadata control access to data
That could be reasonable -- write-protect _part_ of a string. Hm.
serialize -- let metadata be saved to disk or sent across network
I'd prefer a "first/next" interface that would allow multiple
encodings.
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