InterpreterProxy>>ioFilename:fromString:ofLength:resolveAliases:?
Yoshiki Ohshima
yoshiki at squeakland.org
Thu Mar 30 02:42:59 UTC 2006
Hello,
> Well, my point is that if we expose that primitive to the image, we will
> never have the need to do it from a plugin because you can always pass a
> valid file name into it. It's really strange to me that the VM does
> translation for stuff which is (supposedly) handled in the image
> already. I could understand this if we would shoot for a file/directory
> abstraction inside the image but the way it's right now we're hiding
> stuff from the image that the image supposedly is responsible for
> (platform file name handling) and that's Just Wrong (tm).
Since Squeak3.8, FilePath class is supposed to do the conversion. I
wonder if how ioFilename:fromString:ofLength:resolveAliases: interacts
with FilePath...
-- Yoshiki
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