RE: [Tcllib-devel] More file utilities ?

[Andreas K. <and...@Ac...>]

> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 at 13:18, Neil Madden wrote:
>
> > I'd vote for directly into the "fileutil" namespace.
>
> me too. I see no need here to make the command names even longer by
> adding a level of sub-namespaces.

I am not convinced of that argument for not using a namespace. We can always
use 'namespace export/import' + aliases to create short names.

> > Perhaps mapfile or filemap or even just map (i.e. [fileutil::map])
> > as it is quite similar to [string map]? The copy version can be done
> > as an option: fileutil map -copy $outfile $infile key val ...
>
> How about this signature?
>
> fileutil::map {key value ...} infile ?outfile?

> It would be a mixture of [string map] (regarding the mapping list) and
> [regsub] (regarding the optional "to" argument).

I like that signature ... Noted now.


>
> Off-topic remark:

This is for c.l.t., or tcl-core. Having said that, my opinion: No, I do not
think so.

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