[BUG]Should FileDirectory primDeleteDirectory: recurse?

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Tue Mar 19 23:14:25 UTC 2002


Bob Arning  <arning at charm.net> is claimed by the authorities to have written:


> >Do we really want to have to do the recursion and deletion ourselves?
> 
> OTOH, that seems easily enough done in Smalltalk. Why jazz up the primitive unnecessarily? Unless you have an interest in rebuilding VMs... nah.
Sure, it's not hard to do in image code, but it is likely to be much,
much slower than a library call to delete the directory.

tim

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