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Why are paths sometimes manipulated by member functions and sometimes by non-member functions?

April 26, 2017functions manipulated non-member paths

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Why are paths sometimes manipulated by member functions and sometimes by non-member functions?

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The design rule is that purely lexical operations are supplied as class basic_path member functions, while operations performed by the operating system are provided as free functions.