Re: [boost] [filesystem] Function name changes

From: Scott McMurray (me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-03 22:49:42

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 22:27, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Michael Marcin wrote:
>>
>> That is annoying but it seems like a trailing slash at the end of a path
>> would be enough to differentiate paths to files from paths to directories.
>
> I don't like the idea of adding "file or directory" semantics to paths.
>  Paths are just paths.  What about symlinks?  What about devices?
> Should we find a way to represent that information in a path too?
>

Well, maybe there are some path-finding-domain terms that work? The
only thing I can come up with is visited_path, though, and the
connotations don't really fit.  I never recall hearing a term for the
node on the closed list from which a node in the open list was
expended...