Re: [MacPerl] Path-separator (was: Newlines)

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 23:14 -0400 10/12/97, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 22.20 10/12/97, Terje Bless wrote:
>>What if Perl core syntax sez that all functions that take a path as a
>>parameter, expects the path to be in the traditional UNIX style.
>
>What if you have a file with a / in its name?

Here, I can say "if it hurts, don't do it" because I control all the file
names on my vast network (two Macs).  [I tend to put dates into the names
of things like letters...I switched to the style 97-10-13 around 1986.]

But, since we don't all have that sort of control, that issue makes the
URL-style better as a base format (%2F isn't very readable, but it isn't a
pathname separator, either, and %20 covers the space-in-filename problem
which so bothers Unix).

Note that this isn't likely to happen:  it would need to be Perl-wide, and
I'm not sure we (and the Win folks with their \ problem) have enough
influence.

  --John

--
John Baxter (Born before ENIAC, but not by much.)
   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA



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