"Lars T. Kyllingstad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> I would like to say, however, that I think 'sep' is almost up there with
> rel2abs in terms of bad naming. If you just see 'sep' in a piece of
> code, maybe you understand it is a separator, but I don't think everyone
> will conclude it is a directory separator. Using the fully qualified
> name 'std.path.sep' isn't good either, because now it looks like it's a
> path separator.
>
Speaking of sep, I've never been entirely happy with std.path's tendency to
encourage the use of platform-specific directory separators. Windows
generally handles forward-slash just fine, so I've always felt it best to
always just use forward-slash, and then convert to backslash as-needed in
the very rare cases where it actually matters.
Doing either std.path.join("..", "dir", "subdir", "file") or
".."~sep~"dir"~sep~"subdir"~sep~"file" is fucking butt-ugly, and it's
useless anyway since "../dir/subdir/file" works just fine on all OSes
including Windows. (Obviously sep should still exist, regardless of what
it's named. But, at least judging by the docs, std.path just seems to rely
on it too much.)
