From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2006-05-10T16:09:45+09:00
Subject: Re: non-static way to get the filename?

Peter Szinek schrieb:
> Well, for me
> 
> file.basename
> 
> is not cryptic. Maybe for someone it is...

Peter, this syntax is very nice, indeed. But remember that your "file" 
variable above is a string. I don't think it would a good idea to add an 
immense number of methods to the String class for all the things a 
string could possibly represent. The standard library "pathname" offers 
exactly the nice syntax you propose, but uses its own class for file names.

Regards,
Pit