I'm comfortable with the behavior implied for these corner cases.
Stu
Hi
On 13 May 2010 03:02, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
* Decidedly, I have bad feelings when I read about the "magic" of
"coercing" a String first as a URL, and if not possible, fall back
and
consider it a local absolute/relative path. I'm "mitigated" in the
sense that either it's too magic and should got rid of, either it's
interesting and could be promoted as a behaviour in the predefined
Coercions ?
This is good magic. The space of strings that look like file URLs is
disjoint from those that look like paths, and both are reasonable
expectations (based on my ad hoc survey of other languages.)
They are actually not disjoint:
$ mkdir -p "http://www.example.org/cgi-bin/";
$ echo something >"http://www.example.org/something.cgi?key=value&fred=bloggs
"
$ echo blah >"http://www.example.org/cgi-bin/test.cgi?x=y&full-name=Fred%20Bloggs
"
$ find http\://
http://
http://www.example.org
http://www.example.org/something.cgi?key=value&fred=bloggs
http://www.example.org/cgi-bin
http://www.example.org/cgi-bin/test.cgi?x=y&full-name=Fred%20Bloggs
$ cat "http://www.example.org/cgi-bin/test.cgi?x=y&full-name=Fred%20Bloggs
"
blah
And the same would, of course, work for file:/// instead of http://.
Of course it's unusual to do something like the above, but there's
nothing wrong with those paths. Unix filesystems have no problem with
":", "?", "=", "&", etc. in file or directory names and multiple
directory separators are treated as if there was just one.
--
Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com>
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