29 Feb
2004
29 Feb
'04
10:43 a.m.
"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message news:ubrnle90i.fsf@boost-consulting.com...
Phil Richards <news@derived-software.ltd.uk> writes: [snip]
So, do we move filesystem to boost::io::filesystem? :-)
Exploring the filesystem is, IMO, conceptually different from doing I/O.
At least one other language does think so: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/io/File.html I agree with you that there is a conceptual difference, but I think the difference is within the very broad category of io. Afterall, data from the filesystem propagates into the running program as a form of input or you may write a new file which is a form of output. br Thorsten