Proposal for std.path replacement

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On 03/06/2011 04:41 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
> Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>> On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:37:15 +0100, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
>>> What about "file."? I tried it on NTFS, but trailing '.' seems to always
>>> be cut off. Is it possible to create such a file on unix systems? If
>>> yes, you won't be able to recreate it from the result of basename() and
>>> extension().
>>
>> Good point. I don't know if there is any kind of precedent here. What do
>> others think?
>>
>
> Maybe special casing similar to the "hidden" files starting with '.':
>
> basename("file.") --> "file."
> extension("file.") --> ""

I agrre, and this is probably the correct solution: if there is nothing after 
the dot, then it's not an extension separator, thus it's part of the baseName 
(just like if there is nothing before the dot).

Denis
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