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Ticket 113: directory contents

2011-01-24 06:59:32
WG1 - Core
alexshinn
major
alexshinn
wontfix
source
closed
2010-12-15 16:12:10
defect

We've decided to add file-exists? and delete-file, essential for a large class of scripts, but still have no way to get a list of files in a directory. Do we want to provide an interface to this?

This is on the WG2 docket, and I have a proposal at DirectoryPortsCowan. DirectoriesCowan is a companion proposal for creating and destroying directories.

Why use ports for this?

Simplicity and uniformity. Gambit uses directory ports, and everyone else has either a shallow version of Posix or else something ad hoc.

resolutionwontfix
statusnewclosed

WG1 voted to take no action except to push this issue to WG2 (which already had it).