Re: [Chicken-hackers] Remove old variant of find-files

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:38:50AM +0200, Moritz Heidkamp wrote:
> 
> Christian Kellermann <address@hidden> writes:
> > this is a simple patch to remove the deprecated variant of find-files.
> > As it is now the old variant is always choosen when calling find-files
> > with just 1 argument.
> 
> Looks good to me! I don't really get that "we want `cons' inlined"
> comment in the original version. Why doesn't direct passing of cons lead
> to inlining?

Don't understand that one either.

> > There is one discrepancy left as we do follow symlinks by default
> > and the docs say the opposite. Which way is the better behaviour?
> > I will change either the default or the docs then.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure what would be a sensible default myself. FWIW the
> GNU find program doesn't follow symlinks by default.

I think that's safer since symlinks can create cycles which might cause
an endless loop.  If in doubt, choose the safe option, to make it harder
to accidentally shoot yourself in the foot :)
(or do we have cycle detection?)

Cheers,
Peter
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