On 27 October 2004 17:47, Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Krasimir Angelov wrote:
It is not hard to split System.FilePath to System.FilePath.Posix and System.FilePath.Windows. I will do that if other people also agree on that.
That makes life... irritating for those of us trying to write genuinely portable code, insofar as there's no System.FilePath.DoTheNativeThing. It'd be nice to be able to do things like get a list of the files, just the files[1], in a given directory without having to use a preprocessor or similar for portability.
[1] As opposed to directory entries like ".."
I don't think Krasimir meant that System.FilePath would be *replaced* by the platform-specific versions, just that the platform-specific versions would be provided for those wishing to manipulate non-native paths. You'd still get System.FilePath. Cheers, Simon