The most cogent argument against the idea of creating and then deleting has already been made: Namely, sure, you can do it now, but may not be able to in 10 seconds time. Hypothesise that this is a network share, and the network just pisadeared on you? Some kind of transactional system is the only way of this working reliably.
On 17 June 2010 21:01, silky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:53 PM, James Chapman-Smith > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi silky, >> >> It only creates then deletes folders that don't exist so nothing else (bar >> some sort of file system watching rogue program) will write to those >> folders. >> >> But what do you mean "terrible coding style"? The only thing that I can >> fault is the use of the general-purpose `catch` statement. >> >> Please hit me with your criticisms. I want to learn. :-) > > I was kind of making a joke; no-one wants to hear me complain yet > again about the appropriateness of "var". But I'm not a big fan of > many changes in .NET, or Mr Scripting himself (he's probably not a bad > guy, but I'm not a fan of many if any of the "dynamic" changes; but > who knows, perhaps that attitude will change). > > >> Cheers. >> >> James. > > -- > silky > > http://www.programmingbranch.com/ > -- Meski "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
