Re: [boost] [filesystem] adding path equality and path equivalence

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-01 17:01:31

At 11:46 AM 2/1/2004, John Maddock wrote:

 >> Question 2: What if neither exist? Only one exists? My initial thought 
is
 >> that these are likely to be errors, so treat them as such. It could be
 >> argued that if either or both don't exist, they can't be equivalent, so
 >> return false.
 >
 >If only one exists, it's not an error, the two are necessarily
 >non-equivalent.  If neither exists, you have a problem ;-)  Probably an
 >error, unless someone has a compelling use case.

That makes sense to me, unless someone can come up with counter arguments.

--Beman