Re: [boost] Filesystem I18n comments

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-07 12:29:16

"Martin" <adrianm_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:loom.20051228T091806-138_at_post.gmane.org...

> 4. A suggestion is to overload exists, is_directory etc for status flags 
> ....

Status flags has morphed into a full-fledged file_status class, and, as you 
suggested, exists, is_directory, etc. have been overloaded.

This makes user code much more readable and is much less error-prone, IMO. 
Thanks for the suggestion!

> 3. The documentation doesn't say how other_flag is supposed to work.

The docs now say:

    bool is_other(file_status s);

        Returns: return exists(s) && !is_regular(s) && !is_directory(s) && 
!is_symlink(s)

> If an implementation adds more flags, will other_flag be set for these?

No. I'll update the docs to make that clear.

Thanks,

--Beman