On 7-Oct-09, at 9:04 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Perhaps a binary operator #/ would be in order? I.e.,
>
>  foobar := FileDirectory default / 'foo' / 'bar'.

I wasn't actually going to mention this for a few more days, but since  
it's come up...

I've been working on a new filesystem API built on top of the  
FilePlugin primitives. It does just what you propose above.
The following gives an absolute path:

	ref := FSReference defaultDirectory / 'foo' / 'bar'.

A reference is just well, a reference, to a file or directory, not an  
actual open stream, so it can respond to

	#exists
	#isDirectory
	#isFile
	#delete
	#copyTo:
	#fileStreamDo:

and so on. It's much nicer than FileDirectory.

It's completely untested on Windows, and there's no documentation yet,  
but if anybody wants to take a look it's here:

http://source.wiresong.ca/mc/Filesystem-cwp.22.mcz

Colin