[mercury-users] io.m, directory listing

[Fergus Henderson]

On 06-Oct-1999, Tomas By <tomas at research.nj.nec.com> wrote:
> Well, in general I think it's better to base the classification on
> functionality. It's not obvious why deleting a file should be grouped
> with reading/printing the contents rather than with the other file
> management stuff.

Well, looking at the functionality, io.m has facilities for creating files,
so it seems to make sense for it to also have facilities for deleting them.

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