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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: procedure Make_File_Gone (Name : in String);
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:56:54 -0400
Date: 2011-07-21T03:56:54-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8239i06p89.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: j05r52$1h8$1@speranza.aioe.org

tmoran@acm.org writes:

> What's a good name for a procedure that does an
> Ada.Directories.Delete_File if the file exists, and silently returns if
> the file is already gone.

Delete_File.

I'm assuming you are declaring this in a package that is not
Ada.Directories, so overloading is perfectly appropriate.

The detailed semantics are in the comments, not the name.

-- 
-- Stephe



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-21  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-20  6:04 procedure Make_File_Gone (Name : in String); tmoran
2011-07-20  7:03 ` Oliver Kleinke
2011-07-20  7:12 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-07-20  7:34 ` Martin
2011-07-20 18:02 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-07-21  7:56 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2011-07-22 23:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-07-23  2:16   ` tmoran
2011-07-23 14:55     ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-23 19:05       ` tmoran
2011-07-23 20:23         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-07-23 21:08           ` Simon Wright
2011-07-25 15:49             ` Adam Beneschan
2011-07-25 17:28               ` Simon Wright
2011-07-25 17:44 ` marius63
2011-07-27 15:38   ` tmoran
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