Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH 3/4] Remove ##sys#expand-home-path.

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Matt,

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:45:17 -0700 Matt Welland <address@hidden> wrote:

> Please please keep the expansion of ~. 
> Pragmatically speaking what is at risk? 

Here's a simple example:

  $ mkdir some-dir
  $ cd some-dir/
  $ mkdir '~'
  $ echo data > '~/some-file'
  $ echo 'very important data' > ~/some-file
  $ csi -e '(delete-file "~/some-file")'
  $ cat '~/some-file'
  data
  $ cat ~/some-file
  cat: /home/mario/some-file: No such file or directory


Another one, potentially more dangerous if you use a destructive
operator instead of `print':

  $ mkdir some-dir
  $ cd some-dir/
  $ mkdir '~'
  $ csi -e '(use srfi-1 posix) (for-each print (map directory (glob "*")))'


Best wishes.
Mario
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