Re: [boost] [filesystem] "." directory-placeholder added

From: Daryle Walker (dwalker07_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-12 12:31:40

On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 11:23 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:

> An updated version of Boost.Filesystem has been added to CVS. The 
> primary change is adding "." as a directory-placeholder to the generic 
> path grammar.
>
> This solves the problem of distinguishing between an empty path and 
> one that acts as a placeholder.
>
> This change does change some existing behavior: path("foo/..") used to 
> get converted to an empty path. Now it gets converted to a path of 
> ".", and thus the change will break any existing code which depended 
> on the prior behavior.

Is it possible to override this and use "." or ".." as regular object 
names?

Daryle