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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