Re: [go-nuts] Remove vs Delete

2016-08-20 Thread Dave Cheney
Additionally in unix, where the name comes from, a file may have many names (many hard links to a directory entry) so remove in this case is removing a directory entry. Separately, when the link count of a file drops to zero, the file is now inaccessible as you cannot link to something that

[go-nuts] Remove vs Delete

2016-08-19 Thread Joel Eric
I have always considered add/remove to be a pair of keywords and insert/delete a pair of keywords so you could look at the method name used to place the item in storage originally I will admit that I have very little rationale to back this premise up - it's more of a personal practice.

[go-nuts] Remove vs Delete

2016-08-19 Thread bep
I had this discussion with another Gopher about the difference between Delete and Remove. I found this definition which I agree on: *"Delete * and *remove * are defined quite similarly, but the main