From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: delete-file ?? Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 01:00:44 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87n0stwmwj.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <3D31A7BD.F6BA53F1@pacbell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026712915 32694 127.0.0.1 (15 Jul 2002 06:01:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 06:01:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Tyvi-0008VD-00 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:01:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17TyvF-00075U-00; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 02:01:25 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Tyun-000727-00 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 02:00:58 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20EB1F0A; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 01:00:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 28C92215D; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 01:00:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Bruce Korb In-Reply-To: <3D31A7BD.F6BA53F1@pacbell.net> (Bruce Korb's message of "Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:33:01 -0700") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:798 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:798 Bruce Korb writes: > Programming successfully is a task involving keeping track of > a myriad of minutia and fitting all the little pieces together. > Anything that reduces the amount of information that one needs > to track is a good thing. The Guile library supports POSIX > calls with POSIX-ly named functions. Excellent. I only need > to learn one set of names and figure out some mostly obvious > permutations to use the Guile function for the POSIX call. > So, despite the fact that "delete-file" is far more obvious > than "unlink", the rename increases the complexity of my > programming life. I had to find "delete-file" by grepping > the source for "unlink *\(". Ick. Please consider adding > "unlink" and any other POSIX calls that got renamed. That sounds like a good idea to me, though we might need another function. I'm not sure what the error/return semantics of delete-file are -- docs don't say, and whatever's bound to unlink should follow the current guile posix conventions... -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel