July 1, 2009
8:30 p.m.
Stephen Pair wrote:
accomplish this (in VisualWorks). It would be really cool if things like filenames and directories didn't make assumptions about the file system with which they are used (so that you could have filenames for in memory file systems, or filenames for other file systems that one might connect with in ways other than the built in local file system primitives).
broken record... ;-) ...use URIs :-) Then send things like stream, writeStream etc to the URI and have the scheme dispatch resolve the rest. Michael