Nicolas, It is OS-specific, but there is no reason to avoid doing things that are expected on the local host - mac menus come to mind. An OS-neutral approach gets the least-common denominator. Another more fundamental example: the windows guys should get ready to part with drive letters :) I think Randall nailed it with wildcards; that's where it fits. I suppose one could provide a Windows version of it (/home/user could map to the documents and settings craziness), though I learned the hard way to steer clear of such things on Windows - if I have to use Windows, give me my own directory on c: any day. This cropped up in porting one of my tools that I've used for longer than I care to describe, and have ported a couple of times. Now I need a Linux version of it, and ~ would be a nice solution to some problems that quickly surfaced. Bill -----Original Message----- From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Nicolas Cellier Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 3:28 PM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Dumb question: ~ vs. /home/user Isn't this OS-centric ? Nicolas 2009/10/4 Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>:
"Wilhelm" == Schwab,Wilhelm K <bschwab@anest.ufl.edu> writes:
Wilhelm> Understood - the question was (is?) whether or not Pharo Wilhelm> should recognize it and act accordingly - I suspect the answer is no.
It *should* be understood and interpreted in the same places where '*' and '?' and '[]' are used for globbing, since it's effectively a globbing character.
So for example, presuming a hypothetical:
 '*.st' matchingFiles
to return everything matching in the default directory, then:
 '~/foo' matchingFiles
should return something relative to the home directory of the current user.
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