[BUG] FileDirectory>>exists

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Fri May 23 05:33:52 UTC 2003


On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 10:08  AM, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> Julian Fitzell <julian at beta4.com> wrote:
>
>> Anthony Adachi wrote:
>> [...]
>>>
>>> Although, I'm not sure what a good name might be
>>> Filename sounds, to my ears at least, too much like
>>> simply a class without any further responsibilities
>>> other than naming.
> But that would be the point of Filename; separate out the ludicrously
> complex task of handling the naming of files so that other classes can
> deal with the other parts. Plain good factoring.

Hint, on os-x you can represent file enties as URLs and OS routines  
exist to map then between Posix
file paths and os-9 file paths. Just a thought... Should one have a  
URLs and map to/from the platform
file paths?
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