Re: Internal Filename Representations (was Re: Summary of I/O related RFCs)

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:22:30PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "JH" == Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> JH> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:40:07AM -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> >> This all seems like a lot of work for (what I would consider to be) the
> 
> JH> Read carefully the subject: *internal* representation.  If you are
> JH> opening a file with open() or sysopen(), you supply a string with your
> JH> native FS semantics and think no more of it.
> 
> What RFC? I couldn't find it on http://dev.perl.org/rfc/

http://dev.perl.org/rfc/36.pod
 
> Please explain why internally it needs to be represented as anything 
> other than what the user passed in.

A flat string is a pain to handle because then you have to know
in which platform it was originally created: what semantics does
it obey, how to parse it.

> <chaim>
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> Chaim Frenkel                                      Nonlinear Knowledge, Inc.
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