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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