Le jeudi 05 février 2015 à 14:09 -0500, Stefan Karpinski a écrit : > I don't see how it's magical. The function joinpath(path1,path2) gives > the path of path2 relative to path1 – that's what it means. When path2 > is absolute, path1 doesn't matter to answer that question. Yeah, but one could also imagine raising an exception instead, as the programmer may not have expected path2 to be absolute. It's not magical, but maybe a little too smart for my taste for a function called "joinpath". YMMV of course.
Regards > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat > <[email protected]> wrote: > Le jeudi 05 février 2015 à 13:55 -0500, Stefan Karpinski a > écrit : > > When you open the file referred to by path2, that is > essentially > > looking at joinpath(pwd(), path2) and this is just a > generalization of > > that that behavior relative to path1 instead of pwd() > specifically. > > This is also how Python does it, although there seems to be > some > > confusion due to that as well. > Indeed. Isn't this behavior a bit too magical for the Julian > philosophy? > Is convenience worth the increased confusion here? Maybe this > behavior > should only be enabled via a keyword argument? > > > Regards > > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Davide Lasagna > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know this is documented by what is the rationale > for > > joinpath(path1, path2) to return path2 if path2 > looks like an > > absolute path? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Davide > > > > > > > > > > > >
