On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:44 PM, John M McIntosh <
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:

> 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' .
>
>
I find this horribly confusing.  e.g.

 fum := CPlatform homeDirectory , 'myStuff' , ('called' , 'What'),
'where.txt' .

slash is much much better IMO.



> 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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