2007/5/14, subbukk <subbukk at gmail.com>:
> On Monday 14 May 2007 6:38 pm, Damien Cassou wrote:
> Nile is very nicely done. I hope it replaces the current File/Directory
> classes which are too closely tied to the underlying platform.
> One area where it could improve is in handling pathnames. Pathnames should be
> distinct class instead of aString. We could represent Path by a sequence of
> aString, then we could abstract out pathname separator characters. This
> deserves a separate discussion thread.


Nile has nothing to do with File/Directory classes. It's only for
streaming. Yes, you can stream over a file, but our implementation
relies on FileDirectory. What Nile aims to replace is ReadStream,
WriteStream, StandardFileStream, SocketStream, ZipReadStream...




-- 
Damien Cassou