On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 10:30:05 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:05:51 +0100, Lars T. Kyllingstad
<[email protected]> wrote:
Paths are usually obtained in string form, and they are
normally passed to other functions and third party libraries
in string form. Having to convert them to something else just
to do what is, in fact, string manipulations, is just annoying.
Agree 100%.
C# has Path.Combine which builds paths from strings, returning
a string and this is good.
It also has System.File and System.Directory static classes
with static methods taking string, also good.
But, C# also has System.IO.FileInfo and System.IO.DirectoryInfo
which are constructed from a string, and then have methods
which mirror the static methods from System.File plus a refresh
method to update the cached file attributes etc obtained from
the file system. I find these objects useful.
It would be nice for D to have similar objects, IMO.
It does have a similar type: std.file.DirEntry.
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_file.html#.DirEntry
