On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Austin Hastings wrote:
>
>> This whole thread seems oriented around two points:
>>
>> 1. Strings should not carry the burden of umpty-ump filesystem checking
>> methods.
>>
>> 2. It should be possible to specify a file
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Austin Hastings wrote:
This whole thread seems oriented around two points:
1. Strings should not carry the burden of umpty-ump filesystem checking
methods.
2. It should be possible to specify a filesystem entity using something
nearly indistinguishable from standard str
This whole thread seems oriented around two points:
1. Strings should not carry the burden of umpty-ump filesystem checking
methods.
2. It should be possible to specify a filesystem entity using something
nearly indistinguishable from standard string syntax.
I agree with the first, but the
Author: wayland
Date: 2009-08-15 13:19:43 +0200 (Sat, 15 Aug 2009)
New Revision: 27999
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S16-io.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod
Log:
[S02,S16,S32/IO] Added special quoting that creates IO::FSNode objects.
This could sti
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
Considering, though, that we're talking about a magic perl quoting
syntax, we could offer people the option of the following two:
q:io{C:\Windows} # Does what you want
q:io:qq:{C:\\Windows} # Does the same thing
Wouldn't that cover the ba
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Darren Duncan wrote:
Richard Hainsworth wrote:
Would it be possible to remove the special purpose of \ from strings within
IO constructs?
This would mean '\' could be used in naming paths as an alternative to '/',
thus allowing windows and unix strings to be equivalent,
