Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Proposal : Path

[Michal M. <mal...@pl...>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:33:34PM +0900, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> Note : this does not actually do any system checking ( the path may not
> exists or contains invalid characters ). Only special paths . .. and / ( and
> windows drive letters ) are recognized as special.

No characters are special in unix paths beside '/'. Special paths are
only "." and ".." (and maybe "/"). Of course this also depends on
filesystem, but most native FSes allow anything. 

But windows drive letters IMHO should be optional (for example support
them if OS is windows).

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