Path as an object in std.path

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Thu Jun 6 11:14:57 PDT 2013


On Thursday, June 06, 2013 13:53:51 Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:50:13 -0400, Walter Bright
> 
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> > For example, what about symlinks?
> 
> Path operations should not require a real filesystem. They are string
> manipulations, nothing more.
> 
> There is huge value in that.

Agreed, but symlinks highlight the fact that there is a difference between 
paths being equal and paths referring to the same file.

- Jonathan M Davis


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