Re: Last IO discussion

2009-08-19 Thread David Green
On 2009-Aug-19, at 5:00 am, Troels Liebe Bentsen wrote: My idea of working with file names would be that we default to locale or filesystem settings, but give the options of working with paths/file names as binary or a specific encoding. As mentioned in the old thread, encoding is only vagu

Re: Last IO discussion

2009-08-19 Thread Troels Liebe Bentsen
Very interesting read, that opens a whole new can of worms. How should we behave when we actually read file names from the filesystem. As for the path literal the newest revision of S32-setting-library should make most people happy as the default is OS independent and abstract. More strictness can

Last IO discussion

2009-08-18 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
See this link. http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=perl6-language&a=2008-11&t=9170058 In particular, I thought Tom Christiansen's long message had some relevant info about filename literals. :) - | Name: Tim Nelso