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Scala wrapper for Java NIO

by pathikrit on 9/14/15, 7:43 PM with 1 comments

• by room271 on 9/14/15, 8:14 PM

  I have a (genuine) question about this, as I'm interested. What is the benefit to supporting so many ways to instantiate a File object:

      val f = File("/User/johndoe/Documents")
      val f1: File = file"/User/johndoe/Documents"
      val f2: File = root / "User" / "johndoe" / "Documents"
      val f3: File = home / "Documents"
      val f4: File = new java.io.File("/User/johndoe/Documents")
      val f5: File = "/User" / "johndoe" / "Documents"
      val f6: File = "/User/johndoe/Documents".toFile
      val f7: File = root / "User" / "johndoe" / "Documents" / "presentations" / `..`
  

  Why not just the first one, and string interpolation/composition if you need 'root' or 'home' ?