Re: delete-file ??

[Rob Browning]

Bruce Korb <address@hidden> 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...

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Rob Browning
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