On Friday, 22 July 2016 at 19:13:31 UTC, sdhdfhed wrote:
On Friday, 22 July 2016 at 14:02:03 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
The __FILE__ trait seems to be used most useful for error
messages.
Another usage is for testing parsers or string functions
directly on the source. E.g in "devel" mode the main function
void main(string[] args)
{
version(devel)
{
// dont mess with params, use the text in source to
catch most simple bugs.
File f = File(__FILE__, "r");
}
else
{
// load using args
}
}
I could see him wanting it to be a relative path sometimes and
an absolute one other times. By redefining it to always be
absolute would solve this problem,
I'm for this, always absolute. Eventually forced by a new
switch: default behavior is not changed.
Actually I realized if __FILE__ was always absolute, then all
your exception messages would contain the full path of the file
it was thrown from on the machine it was compiled on. This would
be quite odd. Both a relative and absolute version are useful in
different cases.
