phobo's std.file is completely broke!

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 08:46:13 UTC, Vladimir 
Panteleev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 08:36:35 UTC, Vladimir 
> Panteleev wrote:
>>> If you're referring to NUL, COM1, COM2, etc, then this is 
>>> completely orthogonal.
>>
>> Yes. How so? It is the same issue: paths with certain 
>> properties are valid on all platforms except on Windows. 
>> Phobos errors out when attempting to access/create them. A 
>> simple workaround is available: expand/normalize the path, 
>> prepend the UNC prefix, and use Unicode APIs.
>
> I just remembered, there is a third class of paths with these 
> properties: paths containing directory components that begin or 
> end with spaces.
>
> There are probably more... I think some special characters are 
> also valid only in UNC paths.

BTW, something follows from the above:

write(`C:\` ~ (short path) ~  `con`) will fail

but:

write(`C:\` ~ (long path) ~ `con`) will succeed.

This is just one issue I've noticed... there's probably more 
lurking. This is why I think the whole idea is bankrupt.