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From:
Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Date:
October 6, 2007 15:33
Subject:
Re: RFC: relative.pm
Message ID:
E0E91A00-0868-4CCA-87E0-1A429EA1FA12@free.fr
David Cantrell wrote:
>> Also agreeing for the API change. I know I was pondering about using
>> ".." but can't remember why I didn't.
>
> '..' is only meaningful in the Unix/Win32 world. VMS, RISC OS and
> others call it something else. On the other hand, I think it's
> safe to
> assume that anyone using those platforms and perl will know what ..
> means and if they don't I'm sure you'll document it.
For best or worse, Unix semantics are pretty common and have
contaminated many other things not related to filesystems. Think of
URL or XPath[1] for example.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#path-abbrev
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Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Close the world, txEn eht nepO.
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