Re: find for guile

[Marco Maggesi]

thi <address@hidden> writes:

> hi, finally got a chance to check out find.scm and find-old.scm -- neat!
> is there any chance you will be publishing a z77z-pers-scheme (that can
> be installed w/ "./configure ; make ; make install")?
> 
> thi

Yes!  I hope to have time to work on it next week and to
bring my find.scm in a usable state then.  The code
basically works without problems.

Apart some code cleanup, the only open issue I really would
like to solve before the first "public release" is the
following.

Currently `find' and `find-fold' have a different behavior
with respect to the order in which they process a directory
and its files: 
  - `find' process each directory before its contents;
  - `find-fold' process each directory after its contents.

Perhaps this is the right thing, but I suspect this can be
confusing for the users in some situations.  What do you
think about that?

Other ideas are very briefly indicated in the TODO list of
`find.scm' (available form http://www.math.unifi.it/~maggesi/guile/):

;;; ------------------------------------------------------------------
;;; ToDo:
;;;
;;;   - Support shell pattern matching.
;;;   - Use hash table in `make-descend-subdir?'.
;;;   - Error handling?
;;;   - More predicates.
;;;   - A `-prune' like predicate.

Marco