FilePath as ADT

Aaron Denney wnoise at ofb.net
Fri Feb 3 12:29:09 EST 2006


On 2006-02-03, Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:24:28PM +0000, Axel Simon wrote:
>> Yes, and I suppose not being opaque about a file name (i.e. FilePath =
>> [Word8]) is superior.
>
> Maybe.  You might want [Word8] under Unix and [Word16] under Win32.

Right.  I think "Generic File Handling" should not be considered the
base, but layered on top of Unix, Win32 and possibly MacOS, if unix
doesn't cover that.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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