From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2010-02-02T03:21:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Refining the use of file joins or file expand_path

Gary Wright wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2010, at 12:50 AM, Alpha Blue wrote:
>> I was only providing a list in answer to Pharrington.  Call it Saturday 
>> night satire.  I think I provided most, if not all operating systems 
>> that won't accept a forward slash via path.. but I could have missed one 
>> or two.  But, no need to respond to this bit. :)
> 
> The important item that I don't think has been mentioned in this
> thread is that the Ruby runtime is responsible for converting
> forward slash separated paths to the appropriate format for the
> underlying OS.  So in the statement:
> 
>   require "foo/baz"
> 
> The string is an abstract representation of a relative path.  When
> Ruby eventually has to touch the filesystem it may have to convert
> that path into "foo\baz.rb" or maybe "node:[directory]baz.rb".
> 
> The point is that the programmer shouldn't have to worry about
> all that in most cases.
> 

Good to know.  I thought this was the case, but was not certain enough 
to say it outright.

> Gary Wright

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