Re: [MacPerl-Porters] A new catdir() for review/discussion

At 18:45 +0200 2001.09.30, Thomas Wegner wrote:
>In theory, this sounds clear. But when it gets to coding, the decision has to
>be made what happens with calls like
>
>    catdir('', '::')             or
>    catdir('', ':a','b:')
>
>Obviously, the resulting path can't simply be made absolute, especially in the
>first example. Hence, I'd suggest, that an empty string when passed as
>the first argument is treated as File::Spec->rootdir, which on Unix is
>"/", and on Mac OS is the startup volume. This is the most portable way
>for solving this absolute path problem I can think of. Comments welcome.

Sounds good to me.

I assume a patch here would also include a new catfile() if necessary (that
is, it is just implemented mostly via catdir() anyway).

It would also be nice if you could supply a doc patch for lib/File/Spec.pm,
but don't worry about it if you can't or don't want to.  :-)

Thanks,

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