More about ADTs

Since "remove" is the standard C function for removing a file, I'd say that name is highly unsuitable for any other purpose. (I consider it a bug in Pike that the remove-a-file function is called "rm". It's too short, cryptic and non-standard. The same things goes for "mv".)

And "delete" isn't ideal either, since it's the standard C++ keyword for invoking an object destructor.

/ Leif Stensson, Lysator

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2002-11-11 00:29: Subject: More about ADTs

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Possibly. I'm considering the inverse too: how confused would people be by a top-level command "delete" or "remove"? Either could easily be mistaken for a file operation too, if we are to consider all possible misunderstandings. :-)

/ Johan Sundström (ärkehertig av Lysators rootgrupp)