Re: [boost] Re: boost::filesystem file restrictions

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-18 16:46:20

David Abrahams wrote:
>
> Sure; I just don't want to have to be explicit about anything just to
> say "I'm doing native path manipulation", since I believe that's the
> 90% case.  I don't want to be stopped by irrelevant portable path
> considerations nor uglify my code to avoid it.

I agree except that IMO the 90+% case is "I'm doing generic path
manipulation" which is portable path format ("x/y", not "x\y" or "x:y") but
no constraints on charset except of course '/' and '\0'.