On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Darren Duncan wrote:
Richard Hainsworth wrote:
Would it be possible to remove the special purpose of \ from strings within
IO constructs?
This would mean '\' could be used in naming paths as an alternative to '/',
thus allowing windows and unix strings to be equivalent, eg.
IO(:path<<{$root-path}/data/new>>) would be equivalent to
IO(:path<<{$root-path}\data\new>>)
The usefulness would be most evident for sub-directories as windows and
unix have different ways of describing root, viz. 'C:\' versus '/'
I see problems with this considering that \ is quite universally recognized
in Perl (and many other languages) as meaning an escape character, and that
moreover you generally need to be able to escape characters in any context
building a string.
Considering, though, that we're talking about a magic perl quoting
syntax, we could offer people the option of the following two:
q:io{C:\Windows} # Does what you want
q:io:qq:{C:\\Windows} # Does the same thing
Wouldn't that cover the bases pretty well?
:)
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