On 11/10/06, Talin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I am arguing against is an overly strict and pedantic
> interpretation of the differences in path representation across
> platforms. True, in theory, you can't compare a windows path with a
> posix path, but in practice it generally "just works".
Greg Ewing wrote:
> What if you need to know whether it's an absolute or
> relative path, e.g. so you can join it to another path?
> You can't do that without knowing something about the
> semantics.
Maybe use file: URLs for universal format. They become more and more
used in internet era.
Niki
On 11/10/06, Niki Spahiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg Ewing wrote:
> > What if you need to know whether it's an absolute or
> > relative path, e.g. so you can join it to another path?
> > You can't do that without knowing something about the
> > semantics.
> Maybe use file: URLs for universa
Niki Spahiev wrote:
> Maybe use file: URLs for universal format. They become more and more
> used in internet era.
You still need some outside way of telling whether
you're dealing with a universal format, since
"file:" is a valid pathname component in Unix,
a valid volume name in classic MacOS,
