From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA10434; Fri, 28 May 2004 21:34:55 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10058 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 21:34:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4SJYpSH031934; Fri, 28 May 2004 21:34:53 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp114-11.lns1.syd3.internode.on.net [150.101.114.11]) by smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4SJYok2052080; Sat, 29 May 2004 05:04:50 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] unix.chop_extension From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: Damien Doligez Cc: caml-list In-Reply-To: <5A5E8594-B0C6-11D8-962F-00039310CAE8@inria.fr> References: <1085429093.6065.336.camel@pelican.wigram> <20040526110508.A17806@pauillac.inria.fr> <1085567689.25587.202.camel@pelican.wigram> <8026DB99-AF18-11D8-99ED-00039310CAE8@inria.fr> <1085586637.32106.45.camel@pelican.wigram> <607E17A0-AF2E-11D8-9582-00039310CAE8@inria.fr> <1085632433.32106.93.camel@pelican.wigram> <5A5E8594-B0C6-11D8-962F-00039310CAE8@inria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1085772889.3036.70.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 29 May 2004 05:34:49 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40B7945B.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 chop:01 sourceforge:01 2004:99 44,:01 damien:01 pathname:01 9660:01 glebe:01 doligez:01 nsw:01 snail:02 unix:02 checkout:02 2037:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 02:44, Damien Doligez wrote: > On May 27, 2004, at 06:33, skaller wrote: > > > If I call open on 'fred' 'joe' and 'max' on my system > > I will get an error in all three cases because I > > do not have any 'fred' 'joe' and 'max' files. > > Try this: > > open_out "fred";; Ah, point taken! I was reading files, didn't even consider open_out :) > > In particular 'equivalent files' definition is > > of no use to me, because pathname components > > almost never refer to files. > > Please read the documentation. I did. You didn't follow the full discussion. > It doesn't talk about equivalent > files, but about equivalent names. yeah, and I had no idea what that meant. So I asked and Xavier replied: > Two names are equivalent if > they refer to the same file. and that characterisation is what I have been disputing. -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners