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tim Rowledge
tim at rowledge.org
Fri Sep 15 00:30:28 UTC 2006
On 14-Sep-06, at 4:57 PM, Keith Hodges wrote:
> Entirely against my will, I once worked in a perl shop, and I
> noticed that perlites liked joining things.
>
> Whenever I find myself wanting to join a bunch of items together
> (e.g. to make a path) I am never satisfied with the result and so I
> took a look at the Collections/String classes to see whether
> anything fitted nicely.
Well, first point is that you shouldn't make paths like that.
Filenames are *not* strings. If you use constructs like
FileDirectory default directoryNamed:'foo'
you'd get a properly (well, as properly as we can manage right now)
made file directory object with a properly formed pathname. It would
handle platform path separator issues, for example.
tim
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