14 Jun
2010
14 Jun
'10
1:26 p.m.
On 6/14/2010 9:14 AM, Stewart, Robert wrote:
Andrey Semashev wrote:
On 06/14/2010 04:42 PM, Phil Richards wrote:
Are these functions specific to Boost.Filesystem? A mechanism for quoting strings (whether it is double-quoting, back-slashing, or URL-style) would seem to be generally useful, and not just specific to the filesystem library.
I think, path quoting rules can be OS-specific, so it seems fit to reside in Boost.Filesystem.
While that may be true, they could be built atop a more general offering.
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