panagiotis wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
>
>> LC 8.1.3: getting the specialFolderPath("resources") comes on Mac &
>> Win without trailing slash.
>>
>> On Win I also don't get a trailing slash in a standalone.
>>
>> BUT in a MacOS 10.12 standalone I get a trailing slash!
>>
>> Is this a wanted "feature" which I have to script around, or is this
>> a bug I should file?
>
> This is a bug, which will be fixed in LiveCode 8.1.4 RC-1:
>
> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18619
This is also a good reminder about code style for those of us who write
libraries:
The engine is pretty consistent about not including the trailing slash
with values returned from functions that are folder paths.
Indeed where it does, as we've seen here, it's probably a bug.
If we all follow that convention it can reduce the learning curve for
your APIs, and allow one to swap out one function for another with
relative ease.
I used to write my own folder path functions that included the trailing
slash. Seemed like a good idea at the time, since it saved me from
having to include the slash when concatenating with a file name later on.
But I found over time that I had to think about things too much, to keep
track of which functions included the slash and which didn't, so I could
concatenate correctly, avoiding double slashes.
No more. Now I follow the engine convention of not including the
trailing slash, and life is that much simpler. :)
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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