[Seaside] file path abstraction
Tim Rowledge
seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org
Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:05:49 -0700
Rob Whitfield <rob@customfun.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:
> Must I detect the OS and use system specific folder naming conventions or
> does squeak have a more generic abstraction that would work in both cases
> using a single representation?
You're making the very common mistake of treating strings as file names.
You need to do something like
(FileDirectory default directoryNamed: 'data') readOnlyfileNamed:
'foo.bar'
Though to be honest even that is a terribly misuse of strings. Squeak
doesn't actaully have anything approaching a decent file name related
system as yet, so this has to do for now.
tim
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Tim Rowledge, tim@sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
If it was easy, the hardware people would take care of it.