phobos: std.path enhancements

[SLI]

In article <e6jsbm$2cl5$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Carlos Santander says...
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>SLI escribió:
>> How about this enhancement for std.path:
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>> new method:
>> char[] parent( char[] path, int up = 1 )
>> returns the parent path name of the given path, up indicates the levels for
>> "walking up", ´0´ would simply return the path parameter, ´1´ the parent, ..
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>This was already answered in the bugs ng.

If you refer to bug #189, than Walter just said that the bug ng. is not a good
place for discussing this. But maybe you were refering to another bug.

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>> extended method:
>> char[] join( char[] p1, char[] p2 )
>> it would be really nice if join() could also join "real" relative paths (p2)
>> such as "../sibling".
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>I think this was proposed before and, IIRC, people generally didn't agree mainly 
>because symbolic links would make it confusing or difficult or something else.
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>> If helpfull I could provide the "authors" with a win specific implementation
>> e.g. to be used as a starting point.
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Sorry, did not found this thread you are talking about. Can you direct me to it?
I just entered the "D-Train" a few days ago!!

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>Carlos Santander Bernal