Path as an object in std.path

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 17:48:59 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:40:37 -0400, Lars T. Kyllingstad 
> <public at kyllingen.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 17:28:56 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
>> wrote:
>
>>> Great!  I'd highly suggest pathEqual which takes two ranges 
>>> of dchar and does the composition and OS-specific comparison 
>>> for you.
>>
>> They don't have to be dchar if all the building blocks are 
>> templates (as the existing ones are):
>>
>> bool pathEqual(CaseSensitive cs = CaseSensitive.osDefault, C1, 
>> C2)
>>               (const(C1)[] p1, const(C2)[] p2)
>>     if (isSomeChar!C1 && isSomeChar!C2)
>
> Actually, all string variants are dchar ranges :)  And your 
> solution is less general, dchar ranges don't have to be arrays.

Ok, now I see what you meant.

> However, I don't think in practice there are any real non-array 
> dchar ranges...

At least not any that also support slicing, which I think it is 
fair to require of "path ranges".