Re: [PATCH] Add "scandir" procedure

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> skribis:

> I don't mean 6 args is  improper. But maybe some guys just want an easy
> thing, and maybe Guile newbies need a easy start with 'scandir'.

Oh, I just meant to say you could build ‘scandir’ (and others) atop
‘file-system-fold’.

The scandir(3) C function is really meant to be a higher-order function
but its interface is awkward and mixes different concerns (traversal and
filtering.)  Using something akin to the ‘directory-contents’ procedure
I posted earlier, one could then use SRFI-1 to do actual filtering.

> 'scandir' is a POSIX function, so many people will think it exists in Guile.
> We have 'opendir' and 'readdir', but no 'scandir', that's strange.

Yes, you’re right.  However, I feel that we can come up with something
both simpler and more expressive, as sketched above.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo'.