Path as an object in std.path

[Regan Heath]

On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:43:51 +0100, Lars T. Kyllingstad  
<public at kyllingen.net> wrote:

> On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 10:30:05 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
>> On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:05:51 +0100, Lars T. Kyllingstad  
>> <public at kyllingen.net> wrote:
>>> Paths are usually obtained in string form, and they are normally  
>>> passed to other functions and third party libraries in string form.   
>>> Having to convert them to something else just to do what is, in fact,  
>>> string manipulations, is just annoying.
>>
>> Agree 100%.
>>
>> C# has Path.Combine which builds paths from strings, returning a string  
>> and this is good.
>>
>> It also has System.File and System.Directory static classes with static  
>> methods taking string, also good.
>>
>> But, C# also has System.IO.FileInfo and System.IO.DirectoryInfo which  
>> are constructed from a string, and then have methods which mirror the  
>> static methods from System.File plus a refresh method to update the  
>> cached file attributes etc obtained from the file system.  I find these  
>> objects useful.
>>
>> It would be nice for D to have similar objects, IMO.
>
> It does have a similar type: std.file.DirEntry.
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_file.html#.DirEntry

Ahh.. excellent.  In that case, I don't think we want/need the Path being  
proposed.

Side-note;  DirEntry is a very UNIX centric name - I only know that  
because I have coded with it, I wonder what pure windows developers make  
of it..

R

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