More complexity creep in Phobos
Kagamin
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Thu Mar 28 11:40:40 UTC 2019
On Thursday, 28 March 2019 at 07:32:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> On 3/28/19 1:36 AM, Meta wrote:
>> DirEntry states that it is a subtype of `string`
>
> No, please refer to the "Generality creep" thread.
DirEntry is implicitly convertible to string because it needs to
be usable with std.file, which is a big untyped ball of strings.
Compare with scriptlike
https://github.com/abscissa/scriptlike#filepaths that has typed
wrappers for paths (though I prefer separate wrappers for files
and folders).
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