On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym <[email protected]>wrote:
> Aye; my preference, rather than encouraging too much string arithmetic, > is to provide functions to convert lists of strings to and from paths in > the local convention (including mapping special relative-path > conventions like ".", "..", and a leading "/" as appropriate). But let > WG2 ponder on that. I'll be sure to follow their deliberations and bend > John's ear with my opinions in due course, should I see them straying > from the path of sanity ;-) What about systems which don't have files, or don't have hierarchical paths? Is it really the job of the language to specify the topology of the filesystem? Thomas
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