Re: Path & dir separators (was Re: Ant Principles)

[Scott M Stark]

> As stated previously, I see no need in us defining how files or directories
> syntacticly should be defined, let java.io.File do the work for us.
> 
This I strongly agree with as I have found at lease one bug in the handling of 
String
paths in Ant(bugID 172) . The only time a Java program should be dealing with
Strings rather than Files is when the File object is not adequate. I rarely 
find this
to be the case.