Proposal for std.path replacement

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.2280.1299459971.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>
> This reminds me. I should look into mime types one of these days to see 
> what the
> appropriate way (if any) would be to put support for them in Phobos. It 
> would be
> nice to not have to go by extension for the few programs that I have which 
> have
> to worry about file type.
>

I'm no unix expert, but my understanding is that mime types in the 
filesystem don't even exist at all, and that what it *really* does is use 
some complex black-box-ish algorithm that takes into account the first few 
bytes of the file, the extention, the exec flag, and god-knows-what-else to 
determine what type of file it is. Contrary to how people keep making it 
sound, mime type is *not* the determining factor (and cannot possibly be), 
but rather nothing more than the way the *result* of all that analysis is 
represented.