Cross-platform path specification (was RE: Access directory relatively)

Jon Hylands jon at huv.com
Tue Aug 6 23:23:10 UTC 2002


On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:25:05 -0700, Dan Ingalls <Dan at SqueakLand.org> wrote:

> 2.  What about declaring some character (% or something else) to be the Squeak path delimiter in file names, so that it gets translated to the right thing for each platform.  I guess this would be like a poor man's file name class.  Anyway, it would let you use normal string concatenation without having to invent something new, and it could be used in conjunction with % as either the special delimiter, or a special concatenator or both.

I don't understand why this is even an issue -- we have a world-wide,
platform-neutral standard already -- the URL.

If we're going to change a bunch of stuff to support this, why don't we
just do it right and use a URL?

Later,
Jon

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