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Andreas Leitgeb
Arne Vajhøj said:Such beasts still exist in the wild?Eric Sosman said:IMHO, Java errs in exposing any "path separator" at all, because
it just encourages string-bashing. Note that in some file systems
there is no such thing as a "path separator;" on one such I had
files with names like
SYS$DISK:[USERS.ERIC.PROJECT]README.TXT;22
[...]$ type DISK2:[ARNE]HELLOWORLD.JAVA;1
This doesn't yet answer the "in the wild"-part: Is that a machine
still in productive use, or is it merely running under a VAX-emulator
on a PC (just for playing around)?
Anyway, as it seems (gathered from googled pages), java is able to
translate paths like "/disk2/arne/helloworld.java" to what the
system understands, so there'd not really be much of a need for a Java
programmer to explicitly deal with those path construction pecularities.