2010/5/14 Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com>: > On 14 May 2010 04:32, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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/"; > [...] >> I'm comfortable with the behavior implied for these corner cases. > > So if program runs from a particular directory and references files as > file:///some/file, then if someone can create a directory called file: > in that directory with some/file inside that, the program will > suddenly try to access the wrong thing? Seems suspicious to me. >
Michael has a point. One could write a cache mechanism for accessing urls and should work around this "white" (??) magic ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
