On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson wrote:
Imagine two roles, Filename and Dirname (or Path::File / Path::Dir). I
...or imagine just one, called IO::FSNode.
http://perlcabal.org/syn/S32/IO.html#IO::FSNode
Btw, kudos for the special quoting idea -- I love it :).
And in response to David Green and his comment about working with file
data vs. metadata, as a systems programmer, I've written a fair number of
programs that have worried a fair bit about the metadata in the filesystem;
sometimes you want to read data, and sometimes metadata. That's why the Draft
IO spec specifies two separate objects.
HTH,
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