4 Jul
2008
4 Jul
'08
2:49 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 22:27, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> 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...