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

From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard (jbms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-02 11:09:55

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:

> [snip]

> Coming back to equivalence, I still like John Maddock's suggestion of throwing
> only if both do not exist. If fits my intuitive sense of what "equivalence"
> means for files and directories. However, such thoughts in the past sometimes
> changed when tests cases were being constructed. So no firm decision has been
> made yet.

Perhaps the function could return optional<bool> or something similar.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard