Well we used URI with great success in Sophie, since we could use a  
relative path then resolve it to a network path, file system path, or  
a specialized in memory path in order to store book objects in those
three storage areas.

But a few things come to mind for example we could someone do

	foo := CPlatform homeDirectory or documentDirectory or tempDirectory  
or musicDirectory and it would mostly do the right thing based on the  
platform to construct a URI.

then what if you did

	fum := CPlatform homeDirectory , 'myStuff' , 'calledWhat' ,  
'where.txt' .

using the ',' operator to concatenate a path together. Then a method  
to return the proper path based on the type you want, and of course  
the platform specific details.

	platformDirectoryPath = fum asFileSytemDirectoryPath.


On 2009-10-07, at 9:04 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
>> On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 10:26:48 pm Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>>> In st80, there was also a nice feature: * and ? would also apply  
>>> to any
>>> part of the hierarchy
>>> like: /home/nice/squeak/*/*.cs
>> Since Squeak is a VM accessing filesystem on its host, shouldn't we  
>> be using URLs in the image and let FilePlugin resolve it into  
>> pathnames?
>
> I'm not particularly in favor of that option in tools that actually  
> expose the file names to users. When you type file paths in, it just  
> feels wrong to type, e.g., /c/users/andreas/; and typing file:///C:/users/andreas/ 
>  is just plain awful (yes, that's *three* slashes after the colon -  
> copied right out of firefox).
>
> It would be more useful if slashes could be universally used in code  
> though; having to write stuff like
>
>  foobar := (FileDirectoy default directoryNamed: 'foo')  
> directoryNamed: 'bar'.
>
> is every bit as awful. Perhaps a binary operator #/ would be in  
> order? I.e.,
>
>  foobar := FileDirectory default / 'foo' / 'bar'.
>
> (although this overloads the meaning of #/ which is not great either)
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>

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