Scott McMurray wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
Scott McMurray wrote:
And while we're on the subject of decomposition, would it be worthwhile to add decomposition from the front in terms of an uncomplete() function that'd give a relative path from one full path to another? uncomplete(/foo/new, /foo/bar) => ../new
I think that complete is the only function without a corresponding inverse. Do you have a compelling use case beyond complete not having an inverse?
Any time you get a full path (from, say, an open file dialog) and you'd rather have the relative one to save, so that it won't break when moved around. An IDE, for example, would prefer a path relative to the project file's directory, so that you could check it out of SVN to whatever folder.
That seems compelling. Please submit a feature request to trac. Thanks, --Beman