On Mon, 14 May 2007 14:58:26 -0400 "Graham Fawcett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Kon Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 14, 2007, at 11:28 AM, John Cowan wrote: > > > Ah. No. The Win32 kernel does *not* ignore trailing backslashes the > > > way the Unix kernel ignores trailing slashes -- instead, it returns > > > file-not-found errors. > > This comes down to a question of platform abstraction. Which I > > suspect is the unspoken point of Mario's. We do need to remember that > > whatever their compatibility layers/modes Win32 & MacOS X are not > > unix. But Chicken does seem to have a bent for providing a common > > filesystem view so '(file-exists? ".\\")' probably should work on > > Windows, with a little help from special case handling. > > #<<EOF > Insert fuzzy, incomplete thought here, about how we could use a system > for cooperatively defining unit tests against Chicken and extension > modules, to turn up and help resolve issues like these. (It should be > as easy to define a test as it is to edit a Wiki page, and at least > twice as fun.) If I remember (and understand) correctly, Alejandro has some ideas about extending svnwiki to provide a wiki interface for test-cases submission. Best wishes, Mario _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
