Re: [Issue 584] - get rid of path styles inside svn

"Bill Tutt" <rassilon@lyra.org> writes:

> You know, I just realized why this code has been really bugging me
> (before and after your suggested patch), and why making SVN's callers
> worry about the silly conversions makes me so annoyed. We don't
> differentiate paths from URLs. They're a separate conceptual data type
> with different rules about how they're composed, parsed, etc...
>
> If we were using something other than C, expressing this desire would be
> so much easier. *sigh* As things stand, of course, we're rather stuck
> with C.

Easier perhaps, but it's still not impossible:

typedef struct svn_path_t { svn_stringbuf_t path; } svn_path_t;
typedef struct svn_url_t { svn_stringbuf_t url; } svn_url_t;

Should be a straighforward change, although fairly extensive...

-- 
Philip
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