> On 14 Dec 2016, at 15:14, Peter Uhnak <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:13:09PM +0100, Denis Kudriashov wrote: >> 2016-12-14 12:05 GMT+01:00 Ben Coman <[email protected]>: >> >>> But perhaps all those extensions for different file types should be a >>> trait to not repeat ourselves? >>> >> >> Problem with trait that you could not add it as class extension. >> Now you could package your GT support as separate package. But with trait >> it is not possible. >> >> It would be really nice feature by the way > > Ok, so the bottom line is, we could either copy GT behavior to FileLocator, > or I can at the end remove the asFileReference. > > > In either case I still don't understand why the result is different - the > arguably more stable one ($HOME) is late-bound, but windows disks that can > easily change at runtime are not (i.e. (un)plugging a flash disk)?
My home directory /Users/sven is not your home directory /Users/peter but they are both the logical concept of home directory The C or D drive on Windows are always the C or D drive, even if they are removable/changeable, there is no other way to refer to them - they are the same at both levels of abstraction That is how I would interpret the situation > Peter >
