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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: procedure Make_File_Gone (Name : in String);
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:12:18 +0300
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> 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.

Difficult question. In a multi-process system the procedure cannot, of 
course, guarantee that the file does not (again) exist when the 
procedure returns, so "Make_File_Gone" promises too much.

Perhaps Delete_Possibly_Existing_File.

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