[Fluxus] path&string

[David Griffiths]

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 09:07 +0100, gabor papp wrote:
> hi Kassen,
> 
> > I don't like the conversion up&down between "path" and "string".
> first i didn't like that path and string are different types in racket
> either. it differs from other languages, but it's quite logical. one
> possible solution would be that our loading routines would take paths
> and strings as well, just like the racket path functions. if
> load-texture takes path arguments, we would not need the string->path
> conversion, and we could simply use build-path instead of the
> string-append, path->string combination. what do you think?

Yep I think this is the way to do it. A path type makes sense as it can
deal with cross platform differences. The use of strings comes from the
time when fluxus was using guile rather than plt/racket.

cheers,

dave