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

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> 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)

Unix, of course, treats \ as an ordinary filename character.  In Windows,
\ and / are interchangeable in system calls, although the command shell,
the desktop, and other file windows and dialogue boxes don't accept \
but only /.  Inside Chicken, therefore, / is entirely portable and no
translation is ever necessary.

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