On Thursday, June 06, 2013 13:53:51 Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:50:13 -0400, Walter Bright > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > For example, what about symlinks? > > Path operations should not require a real filesystem. They are string > manipulations, nothing more. > > There is huge value in that.
Agreed, but symlinks highlight the fact that there is a difference between paths being equal and paths referring to the same file. - Jonathan M Davis
