[MacPerl-Porters] Re: File::Spec catfile etc.

At 16:41 -1000 2001.09.13, Tim Jenness wrote:
>Fine with me. The important point is 3 - if people want to write code that
>will run on another OS they should not be using platform specific volume
>notation in catfile (which may catch people out given that File::Spec is
>meant to give people platform independent processing).

Right.  But since people already use catfile/catdir for absolute paths (as
catpath didn't exist before), all we can do is try to make that behavior as
portable as possible (yeah, right :-), and document catpath more heavily.

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