Re: [Caml-list] unix.chop_extension

[skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>]

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.

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