There's already shell mode:
;cd projects
;ls
in the REPL.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:56 PM, <adrian_le...@hushmail.com> wrote:
> > There are POSIX standards for new programming language function names?
>
> No, but you've implemented functions with POSIX names
>
> > yes, ls() could be a better name
>
> In the REPL, I might
>
> julia> cd("projects")
>
> And want to
>
> julia> ls()
>
> to see what's there
>
> But, I probably wouldn't want to do that in Julia file
>
> rd = readdir(pwd()) # ls() doesn't make sense here
>
> So, maybe alias them?
>
> Aidy
>
> On 9/14/2016 at 5:41 PM, "Stefan Karpinski" <ste...@karpinski.org> wrote:
> >
> >There are POSIX standards for new programming language function
> >names? But
> >yes, ls() could be a better name.
> >
> >On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Adrian Lewis
> ><adrian_le...@hushmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> > You can find a thread/issue where this is discussed. Some
> >group decided
> >> to call it readdir() and like it more. I just got used to it. I
> >think it's
> >> silly, but it's just syntax.
> >>
> >> I thought it might be an idea to stick with POSIX standards.
> >>
> >> On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 4:40:03 PM UTC+1, Chris
> >Rackauckas
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 7:36:18 AM UTC-7, Jacob
> >Quinn wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> readdir()
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Adrian Lewis
> ><adrian...@hushmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> In the filesystem package, if we have pwd() and cd(), why do
> >we not
> >>>>> have ls()?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Aidy
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
>
>
