Well, I think that Perl6 really need the URI. Everyone that have tried to use Perl5 on Mac saw the problem, and the difference between file systems don't stop here.

About the use of file://c:/foo instead of file://c|/foo, weel I think that the both will work, since we have many programms that use them today.

About the use of reserved characters in file names, well, we can't tell to someone that use a OS to not use some symbol because in other doesn't work! In other words, in theory we need to can put "any" symbol in file names. To do that, how about use the %HH, that every body know in the URI? We already use that for spaces, %20.

This is a inportant point, since when we talk about Perl6 we say Parrot, and Parrot is not only for Perl, is a VM for many languages. And I think that some upgrades to the rolls of URI can be made, since URI was defined a "long time ago" and was tested very well, and now we can know the best options to choice.

Graciliano M. P.
"The creativity is the expression of the liberty".

In reply to Re: syntax for URI of files? by gmpassos
in thread syntax for URI of files? by John M. Dlugosz

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