RE: [boost] Re: Design for a file system library

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-28 13:20:08

At 04:03 PM 2/27/2002, Stewart, Robert wrote:

 >From: Beman Dawes [mailto:bdawes_at_[hidden]]
 >>
 >> At 07:43 PM 2/24/2002, Jan Langer wrote:
 >>
 >>  >>bool remove(name_t name);
 >>
 >> No return.  Should throw if error.  Other than exists(), all the free
 >> functions should throw on error.
 >
 >I disagree.  This is not such an uncommon failure; using an exception to
 >report it will make code for this frequent, if not common condition, more
 >awkward.

The name has been to "erase" so there will be less chance of confusion with 
std::remove.  That also solves the issue you are worried about; just use 
std::remove if you don't care about errors.

 >>  >>bool move(name_t source, name_t dest);
 >>
 >> Not sure if this should be called rename or move.  Specs need
 >> to be worked
 >> out if the target is a different volume than source.
 >
 >Using one name for both operations can be confusing, but it is a common
 >idiom to call both "move."

That's currently the plan.

Thanks for the comments.

--Beman