Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

[Rony G. F. <Ron...@wu...>]

On 28.08.2012 19:32, Mark Miesfeld wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Chip Davis <ch...@av...> wrote:
>> On 8/28/2012 08:46 Rony G. Flatscher said:
>>> Just did that and saw that you yourself had not done that vote up.
>> I had not bumped the RFE because I wanted to initiate a discussion
> Actually I think Rony meant Michael had not bumped up his own RFE, but
> that's not that relevant.
>
>> about the implementation of it, first.  Specifically, Michael
>> suggested a flag to indicate that every file should be returned.
>>
>> My point was that "return every file" should be the default behavior,
>> and that the interface could use flags, RE's, wildcards, arguments, or
>> whatever, to indicate something less than every file was desired.
>>
>> I know the "backwards compatibility" argument will be raised, but the
> But what about "backwards compatibility?"
>
> I agree with you that the reasonable default for the "S" flags would
> have been all files.  But it wasn't implemented that way on Unix-like
> systems.  It's been that way for a long time, probably forever.  If we
> suddenly changed the behavior, programs like the ones Michael has
> already written and has been using would no longer produce the same
> results.
>
> Is that okay to do just because the original default wasn't reasonable?
>
> That's the question I'm interested in.
This is an interesting question!

What, if one just regards the current behaviour on Unix systems to be a (long standing) bug, rather
than a RFE?
:)

---rony