Re: [Jython-dev] work in progress: rel files ctr

[Samuele P. <pe...@in...>]

Hi.

Really just a detail.
[Finn Bock]
> I think it would be better to let the File() ctor create and handle the
> aspect of relative files. I.e. 
> 
>             if (dirName.length() == 0)
>                 dirName = null;
>             File dir = new File(dirName, name);
> 
> It is not well defined, what will happen if the dirName == "", but a
> null directory value will create a relative file.

Reading the sun docs:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/io/File.html#File(java.lang.String, 
java.lang.String)

The contrary seems true, at least for java2. So that "" is the right choice
to get a "rel" dir.

But my fear is really for java1.1 and the Macs.
The old sun jdk1.1 doc is mostly unclear.

regards, Samuele