Re: encapsulating directory operations

On Tue, 20 May 2025 19:36:06 +1000, Paul Edwards wrote:

Ritchie is no longer here to adjudicate whether something close to
C90 - in the spirit of the original C, is the true successor to his
language, and which one is a complete and utter joke of no relation
to anything he designed.

Remember also that his vision of C was something very much designed to
work on a Unix-type OS. Or at least with a POSIX API layer underneath.
Without that, C is a pretty sad language indeed.

Which, incidentally, takes care of the issues you are trying to address
here.