Re: encapsulating directory operations

"Keith Thompson" <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote in message
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It looks like it treats a directory as a file containing a
sequence of *lines*, each of which is a file name.  The problem
with that is that on some systems, file names can legally include
newline characters.  I don't suggest it's not a horrible idea to
take advantage of that, but it is something that would have to be
addressed in a language standard.

And - that's part of my question.

The language standard would need to say something along
the lines of "if any filenames contain a NL character, the
results are implementation-defined".

Any issue with that?

Not sure if there is any careful wording needed because people
have VMS in their minds (obviously they don't literally write
VMS in the standard - but it may appear in the Rationale).

Ditto MVS would be the reason why mkdir() can't be
implemented - and mentioned in the Rationale, not the Standard.

BFN. Paul.