From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2005-09-26T23:14:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Finally an answer to my RubyGems question and some small suggestions On 9/26/05, TRANS wrote: > On 9/26/05, Austin Ziegler wrote: > > On 9/26/05, TRANS wrote: > > > Do you think, while we're at it, some code can be put in there to deal > > > with non-cross platform punctuation in file names? > > I do not believe that this is a good thing to solve, personally, and > > think that alternative solutions for Nano's problems are better. > Well, it NOT just a Nano problem. It IS a cross-platform problem. This > can effect any project that uses a file name with certain punctuation. Sure. But I don't think that most people would *want* to use such punctuation in their function names. I think it's a Nano problem because you're wanting to allow individual function specification. It makes sense, but I don't think that it's a general-case problem. (It never would have dawned on me to use *, ?, or a couple of other characters in any filename that I would require from Ruby. This may be because I do a *lot* of cross-platform work, but I just wouldn't ever do that. I think it's something that could be discouraged.) I'd rather see built-in support for loading from .zip or .tar first (unfortunately, we can't really choose .rar as a filename, as it's already an archive type). -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca