Re: A Batteries API specification (was Re: LuaDEAL - Lua DEad Alive Libraries)
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- Subject: Re: A Batteries API specification (was Re: LuaDEAL - Lua DEad Alive Libraries)
- From: Frank Kastenholz <fkastenholz@...>
- Date: 2020年1月23日 15:55:46 -0500
>> On Jan 22, 2020, at 10:56 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>>
>> If info() is called on a symlink, does it return info about the link
>> itself, or the file the link points to?
>
> What's this "symlink" you speak of?
>
> Okay, I know what they are, but this is meant to be a minimum support.
One can write a standard (at least) two ways. The first is “everyone must do X”
The second is “if you do X you must do it this way...” which seems to me to be a reasonable approach in these sorts of cases
Frank