Re: [Chicken-users] file-exists? on Windows

[Graham Fawcett]

On 5/14/07, Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:
> On May 14, 2007, at 11:28 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> > Ah.  No.  The Win32 kernel does *not* ignore trailing backslashes the
> > way the Unix kernel ignores trailing slashes -- instead, it returns
> > file-not-found errors.
> This comes down to a question of platform abstraction. Which I
> suspect is the unspoken point of Mario's. We do need to remember that
> whatever their compatibility layers/modes Win32 & MacOS X are not
> unix. But Chicken does seem to have a bent for providing a common
> filesystem view so '(file-exists? ".\\")' probably should work on
> Windows, with a little help from special case handling.

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Insert fuzzy, incomplete thought here, about how we could use a system
for cooperatively defining unit tests against Chicken and extension
modules, to turn up and help resolve issues like these. (It should be
as easy to define a test as it is to edit a Wiki page, and at least
twice as fun.)

Macroexpand later into an eloquent appeal to fellow chicken-users, to
help develop such a system, based on existing extension modules where
possible.
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Graham