Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Move some low-hanging fruit from posix.scm to file.scm

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:

What should we do with ##sys#glob->regex?  I think it's useful
enough to expose to the user, which conveniently allows us to get
rid of the ##sys# prefix too.  But in which unit does it belong
the most?  Personally, I think file might make more sense, as
it's strictly not an irregex procedure, and it belongs with "glob".

On the other hand, it doesn't actually hit the file system; it's an
abstract operation over data-structures only, without any side effects.

The same is true of the pathname-* procedures.  glob->regex should be

exposed, and it belongs with them.

IMO, canonical-path belongs in files also; it too is an abstract operation, though system-dependent.

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