On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:30:35PM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
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>unlink() should be left alone
May I suggest that deprecation in favour of a non-platform-specific
solution provides:
a) backwards compatibility
b) less unix-centrism
I say this as a Unix weenie, albeit a Unix *user* rather than a Unix
*programmer*. I'm quite used to navigating the Unix filesystem but,
having never braved Unix systems programming, had no conceptual link
between deleting/"rm"ing files, and the term "unlink". It tooks me
quite a bit of camel-petting to find the right function, when I first
needed it.
K.
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