Proposal: System.FilePath: current directory should be ".", not ""

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Nov 14, 2009, at 09:02 , Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On the other hand it doesn't quite align with people's notion of
> relative paths so people might hate it :-).

Seems to me this approach handles Windows better.  There is no single  
"current directory"; it's one per drive letter (plus one for  
"default", which might not be a drive letter if you "cd" to a UNC  
path).  It also handles building paths for processes launched  
somewhere not the current directory, which seems like a big win to me.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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