On 10/09/2018 19:28, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
Roger,
You've run into the standard naming ambiguity problem of "when is a
path a search path, with elements separated by File.pathSeparator
(e.g. class path, source path), and when is it a file path, with
elements separated by File.separator (e.g. a nio.file.Path identifying
a file or directory)?"
This shows up most obviously in the method confusingly named
"pathToPaths".
In other contexts (javac, jtreg, etc) I've tried to use the term
"search path" to describe the string that is a sequence of elements
separated by File.pathSeparator.
I agree the naming is confusing as this API is about parsing a search
path into its components. The Instrumentation API is another example
where "Search" was put into the method name.
-Alan
