Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in canonical-path?

[Vincent Manis]

On 2008-Oct-26, at 11:50, Peter Bex wrote:
> It would be better to make the behaviour be system-specific, instead  
> of
> adding flags. On Windows, *always* treat slashes as backslashes.  On  
> Unix,
> *only* accept slashes with no additional translation steps. (I'm not  
> sure
> Windows doesn't allow slashes in filenames, but I don't think it does)
I strongly disagree with this particular recommendation. Sometimes I  
have code
running on Unix that manipulates Windows file names (thanks to  
VirtualBox, that's
something I want to do more often, these days). I recommend a design  
that has
a flag with settings such as `this is a Windows name', `this is a Unix  
name', and
a default setting of `this is a name for the OS I'm currently on',  
which can certainly
work the way Peter suggests.

-- vincent