Re: encapsulating directory operations

"Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:10103i7$1jdii$1@dont-email.me...

That's convey. Not convince.

Oh yeah - an more "conveying".

I am happy to invalidate the last (2025-1999) years of
software that you wrote, with no moral qualms, the same
way as you have no moral qualms about invalidating
beautiful 36-bit machines every time you write int32_t,
and invalidate beautiful MVS every time you #include
unistd.h because there is no C90 function to do what
you want, and you didn't propose a C90+ to add one,
and you just insist MVS doesn't exist either way.

Or use the term "not relevant today".

There's the battle lines right there.

I'm not particularly expecting to win, but I was thinking
36-bit machines would be useful to me so that I can
support a variation of VISCII without needing to take
over control characters. I would be happy to take over
control characters, but that was until I found that I
probably need the box-drawing characters from code
page 437 too.

Post-edlin is microemacs. Post-microemacs is a text
windowing system.

BFN. Paul.