On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:55:39 +0200, Bo Persson wrote:
It would be really surprising if the language would then try to
standardize file names and directories.
Me too, but only because so far the standard seems to have a
history of trying to weasel out of exactly the kind of ugly,
low-level abstractions a standard library should provide first
and foremost of all. Which pretty much forces developers to code
outside of the standard, e.g. using Qt, which (although primarily
a GUI-abstraction layer) does provide things like a _proper_
string class (efficient, with fully-fledged interfaces to codecs,
filesystem etc). In other words exactly the kind of thing that's
indispensable for a _usable_ standard library.
Yes, Qt claims "Portability across desktop and embedded systems".