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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Bug in Filename.basename?
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:00:31 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070905220031.5995251d.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1188991526.46de922610e05@webmail.in-berlin.de>

Oliver Bandel wrote:

> But possibly it's not different to other basename-implementations.

Which is exactly what I said later in my email.

> Looking at that documentation, I can't see no bug in the implementation.

Your documentation documents the Ocaml function. 

> When you want to know how your car's GPS-navigation system works,
> do you look in the documentation of your video-camera or vacuum-cleaner?

We are not talking about GPS systems or video cameras or vacuum cleaners,
but if you want we can continue; I would be complaining if I was sold
a video camera that didn't record video but did suck a lot of air.

The function is called basename just like the IEEE Std 1003.1 standard
function specified by The Open Group:

    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/basename.html

In the examples section of that document they give these examples:

    Input String    Output String
    "/usr/lib"      "lib"
    "/usr/"         "usr"

Erik
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-05 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-05  8:45 Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-05 10:41 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2007-09-05 11:10   ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-05 11:25     ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-05 12:00       ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
2007-09-05 13:06         ` Markus E L
2007-09-05 20:39         ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-05 21:03           ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-06  4:52           ` skaller
2007-09-06  7:09             ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-09-06  9:51             ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-06  9:32           ` Markus E L
2007-09-06 10:00             ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-05 12:15       ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-09-05 20:54         ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-05 12:37     ` Brian Hurt
2007-09-05 13:06     ` Markus E L
2007-09-05 12:10   ` Olivier Andrieu

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