From: Ross Bamford Date: 2005-12-31T20:05:33+09:00 Subject: Re: Path Separator and Windows On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:32:07 -0000, Justin Johnson wrote: > Anyone else agree with me on this? I'm not just complaining here. I'd > like to see Ruby improve but I want to make sure I'm not missing > something obvious. > Well, if I have to write my code to check path separators and work around non standard stuff, it isn't going to happen. Granted using File.join and so forth is always good practice but there are often times you need to split a path manually or do some other kind of work on it. If all that gets broken then I'm just not going to even try to fix it from this end. I don't know, but I wonder how many others are writing code that's Windows compatible by happy coincidence, purely because Ruby _works_ to give a reasonably standard environment? Just my opinion... -- Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk