30 May
2008
30 May
'08
11:43 p.m.
David Abrahams wrote:
FYI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename
I think it is interesting that the wikipedia community
distinguishes
windows filenames from unix filenames, so that on unix systems the 'extension' is part of the name but on windows systems it is not.
The latter is "true" in some sense from the user's perspective, or at least Windows tries to present that illusion. But every programmer quickly learns that the extension *is* really part of the file's name on Windows. We're presenting names for programmers, not GUI users.
Really? It is definately part of the path on windows but... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e737s6tf(VS.80).aspx Anyhow I liked your suggestion to just use 'name()', I vote for that one. -- John