> On January 25, 2016 at 5:54 PM Rainer Weikusat
> <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
[...]
> A related but IMHO more interesting set of questions could be:
>
> 1. Should every trivial crap $someone ever implemented since 1978 end up
> in general purpose library just because $someone happend to have to
> power to put it into it?
>
> 2. Should people be required to memoize every trivial crap $someone ever
> implemented since 1978 just because that someone happened to have to
> power to ...?
>
> 3. Should people who consider themselves Very Superior Entities because
> the have memoized every trivial crap $someone ever ... and so on, be
> taken as seriously as they continuously demand?
It must be trivial crap because nobody ever made a programming error parsing
path names when they rolled their own routines for it. Also: Windows and Mac
path names follow different rules. Use the libraries. I actually like the
example of Python's os.path library, which implements a unified set of portable
routines for manipulating path names.
Peter Olson
Off topic P.S.: memoize means something different from memorize, which you
clearly meant.
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