> On January 25, 2016 at 5:54 PM Rainer Weikusat > <[email protected]> wrote:
[...] > A related but IMHO more interesting set of questions could be: > > 1. Should every trivial crap $someone ever implemented since 1978 end up > in general purpose library just because $someone happend to have to > power to put it into it? > > 2. Should people be required to memoize every trivial crap $someone ever > implemented since 1978 just because that someone happened to have to > power to ...? > > 3. Should people who consider themselves Very Superior Entities because > the have memoized every trivial crap $someone ever ... and so on, be > taken as seriously as they continuously demand? It must be trivial crap because nobody ever made a programming error parsing path names when they rolled their own routines for it. Also: Windows and Mac path names follow different rules. Use the libraries. I actually like the example of Python's os.path library, which implements a unified set of portable routines for manipulating path names. Peter Olson Off topic P.S.: memoize means something different from memorize, which you clearly meant. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
