Path as an object in std.path

[Regan Heath]

On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:55:50 +0100, Lars T. Kyllingstad  
<public at kyllingen.net> wrote:

> On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 07:05:52 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 06:27:46 UTC, Dylan Knutson wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I'd like to open up the idea of Path being an object in std.path. I've  
>>> submitted a pull  
>>> (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1333) that adds  
>>> a Path struct to std.path, "which exposes a much more palatable  
>>> interface to path string manipulation".
>>
>> [...]
>
> Let me add some more to this.  To justify the addition of such a type,  
> it needs to pull its own weight.  For added value, it could do one or  
> both of the following:

Does System.IO.DirectoryInfo:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directoryinfo.aspx

Add sufficient value to justify it's existence to your mind?

vs just having System.IO.Directory:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directory.aspx

R

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