Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 25.05.2025 23:54, Paul Edwards wrote:

"Janis Papanagnou" <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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On 23.05.2025 07:20, Keith Thompson wrote:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
[...]

If you have created a separate library, advertise it so that it
gets used, and if people are widely happy to have that library
suggest it for inclusion. Then committees might pick it up (or
not).

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Or it might *not* be included in the language standard because
there's no need to do so.  If a library is popular, programmers
can just use it whether it's part of the standard library or not.
Plenty of popular libraries are not part of the C standard library --
and they don't need to be.

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Yes, sure. - I thought this was what I wrote [with other words];
"might pick it up (or not)".
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Honestly, I still don't understand Paul's fixation on the standards
track; i.e. beyond the good feeling one may have when contributing
something [potentially] useful. If it's a sophisticated library and
made available to the public that could be reward enough. (But who
am I to judge. To each his own.)

 
(sorry for the delay in replying)

No worries.

[snip many lines]

tldr;

Your posts are many and always also very long, with repetitions, but
rarely clarifying things [for me], they also appear incoherent to me.
So bear with me if I now occasionally skip (some of your) long posts.
If you have a clear desire I'd think it could be formulated tersely
(or its content be reconsidered to gain more clarity before posting).

Janis