[phobos] std.path proof of concept

[Ellery Newcomer]

Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at ...> writes:

> 
> I looked at the design. It is very solid and elegant, but I suggest we 
> save it for a different opportunity. Scenarios in which code running on 
> a platform yet needs extensive functionality for the other are a tad 
> tenuous.
> 

Part of the point of the path manipulation routines in dmdz.d was to get around
the fact that dmd/windows doesn't have posix path manipulation. Another part was
to convert from one to the other. I don't think such scenarios are tenuous at
all. As far as abstractions are concerned, though, no idea.

ps Lars, what do you think of my path2list (splits a path into an array [range?]
of the path elements) and its inverse? It looks like it could be implemented
very cleanly in your rewrite.