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Date: 27 Jul 1999 01:39:06 GMT
From: nr@viper.cs.Virginia.EDU (Norman Ramsey)
Subject: Re: Basename.icn in Library 9.3.2
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Status: RO
In article <199907191948.MAA14993@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU>,
Frank Lhota <lhotaf@lexma.meitech.com> wrote:
>> Should the documentation be corrected?
>>
>
>That all depends on how we want basename to behave. If we actually want the
>old behavior, we should correct the procedure instead. I think that the
>original idea was to make basename mimic the Unix utility of the same name.
>The latest version of basename does seem to match the Unix basename, so if
>this is what is desired, we should update the documentation.
A wise man once said, ``If you change the specification of a
procedure, also change its name.''