Thomas Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave, > > Beman Dawes wrote: >> At 08:06 PM 8/9/2003, David Abrahams wrote: >> > >> >I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but I think the cure for someone being >> >confused about the term "absolute" on multi-root OSes is to pick the >> >definition that allows the term to be meaningful (an absolute path >> >identifies a specific location, and so must include the root) and *add >> >a clarifying note or definition for the corner case*, not to pick some >> >new term which nobody knows about and makes the library hard to >> >approach. > > The problem is not someone who is confused. The problem are a > potentionally significant number of users who are sure they know > what they are doing, but don't. A clarifying note won't be much use > to them, cause for them there seems to be nothing that needs > clarification.
I understand what you're saying. Picking a portable/generic path format which always made absolute paths start with "/" would have been an easier way to keep people from heading happily down the wrong path. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
