Re: [boost] Review Request: Filesystem Library

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-02 10:12:09

At 09:53 AM 8/2/2002, David Abrahams wrote:

 >From: "Keith Burton" <kb_at_[hidden]>
 >
 >
 >> Sorry but I cannot let this misinterpretation of what I said go :
 >>
 >> All I said was to remove the pre-condition exception that the path must
 >> exist , I said nothing about removing the post-condition exception that
 >> the path must not exist.   ( I mean exist not just be reachable ).
 >>
 >> Keith
 >
 >FWIW, that's always made the most sense to me.

Again, the function remove_all() is provided to meet the need for a 
function which does not throw an exception if the target doesn't exist.

It seems to me people are advocating something that is already provided. Am 
I missing something?

--Beman