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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: procedure Make_File_Gone (Name : in String);
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:44:06 -0500
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<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message news:j05r52$1h8$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> 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.

I'm of course partial to Purge for this use. :-)

[Background to the uninitiated: I had suggested to Tom and other Janus/Ada 
customers that they consider using Ada.Directories operations rather than 
the implementation-defined ones in Ada.Text_IO.Extensions as those are more 
portable; specifically replacing Ada.Text_IO.Extensions.Purge with 
Ada.Directories.Delete_File. Tom had followed that advice, except that it 
was causing random failures to his application -- which eventually turned 
out to be caused by the different behavior of Purge (do nothing) and 
Delete_File (raise an exception) if the file does not exist.]

                                         Randy.