Cross-platform path specification (was RE: Access directory
relatively)
Eric Scharff
Eric.Scharff at Colorado.EDU
Mon Aug 5 22:46:44 UTC 2002
On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, David T. Lewis wrote:
> We already have a FileUrl, which aspires to be a platform-independent
> representation of a local filesystem path to a file or directory (or
> other "filesystem object" on some platforms). Perhaps it would be
> cleaner to add the missing behaviors there?
One danger I see with FileUrls is that I've seen many different syntaxes
for them. It seems to be a mess. Is the path separator in a FileUrl
always $/? How are multiple volumes handled? It could encourage people to
build paths by hand, quite possibly in a non-cross-platform way.
-Eric
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