Re: [MacPerl-Porters] [ macperl-Bugs-472413 ] pwd result different from 5.20r4

At 18:41 +0200 2001.10.19, Axel Rose wrote:
>But if I think of the new directive thus
>
>  everything ending with a colon is a volume or a directory
>  everything without a colon is a file

But that is not the directive.  The directive has to do with what *values*
are *returned* from standard MacPerl modules and functions and operators.
You can still leave off the ":" in opendir, -d, and anything else that
accepts a directory name.  This is just relating to Perl returning values
to you.

>I wonder why I get these results:
>
>  perl -e 'print "-> is a dir" if -d "Macintosh HD:Desktop Folder:"'
>  -> is a dir
>  perl -e 'print "-> is a dir" if -d "Macintosh HD:Desktop Folder"'
>  -> is a dir

Because Desktop Folder is a folder.  -d does not look at the name, it looks
at the actual item.

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