std.path.getName(): Screwy by design?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Daniel Gibson" <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Am 01.03.2011 16:38, schrieb Kagamin:
>> Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>>
>>> or just an extentionless file named ".bashrc"? (I know unix doesn't
>>> typically have a concept of file extension, it's all just part of the 
>>> name,
>>> but unix programs will often care about the extension portion of a
>>> filename.)
>>
>> .Net treats it as a nameless file with extension.
>
> .Net is designed for windows, obviously.
> The right thing to do is to treat a dot at the beginning differently and 
> in all other cases define everything behind the last dot as the extension.
>

Yea, the only time you ever have a "nameless file with an extension" on 
windows is if it's a file that just happens to *be* either ".htaccess" or 
".svn" or something else that's already using it in the unix sense (...or if 
OPTLINK errors out...but I'm not sure that's worth counting ;) ). So I don't 
think it makes any sense to have the windows build of an app handle the 
"name vs extension" semantics any differently then it would handle it on 
unix.