[boost] Re: boost::filesystem file restrictions

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-18 20:13:45

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 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'.

Works for me.

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