Re: Why `aFileReference asString = aFileReference fullName` is false?
Posted by
Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 on
Mar 10, 2015; 4:28pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Why-aFileReference-asString-aFileReference-fullName-is-false-tp4810690p4811068.html
> On 10 Mar 2015, at 17:31, Peter Uhnák <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> /Users/sven/Desktop/foo.txt
> file:///Users/sven/Desktop/foo.txt
>
> But what about native (OS platform) conventions ?
>
> I don't want to see Windows backslashes, but Windows user might disagree.
>
> file:// is URI scheme and as per RFC (
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1630 ) there is always forward slash; even on Windows.
> After all as we've found with git, using backslashes on Windows doesn't even work... so maybe use file:// as universal scheme?
I don't agree, because *IT IS NOT A FILE URL*, *IT IS MORE*
It is a thing that looks like an abstract file of something that looks like a file system, not necessarily a regular disk based one, this has to be reflected in its general print representation, else you are lying/confusing the user