From: Peter Bex <peter....@xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] [patch] remove the initial check on directory existance Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 16:26:28 +0100
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 10:22:45AM -0500, John Cowan wrote: >> Peter Bex scripsit: >> >> > Better to either keep it the way it is, change the semantics and >> > breaking compat (so be it), or convert to keyword args and make it an >> > optional feature (my least favorite alternative). >> >> I'm not a big fan of keyword args either, but an optional second argument >> that makes it atomic wouldn't kill anybody. >> >> (create-directory pathname [ atomic? ] ) > > It already takes an optional second arg. The current signature is: > > (create-directory pathname [ parents? ] ) > > This optional parameter tells it to create parent directories if they > don't exist. Of course we could make it look like: > > (create-directory pathname [ parents? [ atomic? ] ] ) > > This is probably the cleanest backwards-compatible solution. Oh damn. I mixed this up with the one in setup-api. So, add1 to *this* solution, instead. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
