phobo's std.file is completely broke!

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 09/20/2018 03:59 AM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
> On 09/19/2018 11:15 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>
>> When the OS itself fails to properly deal with such files, I don't 
>> think D has any business in *facilitating* their creation by default.
>>
> 
> I used to be a pure Windows user for a long, long time. Trust me, if 
> you're using Windows, you run into PLENTY of ways to generate files that 
> explorer can't handle. Even the system's own commandline makes their 
> creation trivial (it also makes it trivial remove/rename such files, 
> too). Very little else on Windows has the same bizarre, 
> inconsistent-with-the-OS-itself limitations that explorer has. It's a 
> jungle. Welcome to Windows. *shrug*

In any case, the last thing Windows users need is more software that 
gives them the same "It's not even compatible with its own freaking 
native filesystem" headaches explorer already gives them.

(Not that I don't have opposite beefs with Linux - Linux could use a lot 
LESS software that happily supports file/dir names with forward slashes 
and hidden control codes in them. Ugh, ya can't win anywhere in 
computing...)