Re: find

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: "Michael Burschik" <address@hidden>
   Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:07:01 +0200

   (and (not (owner "root" filename))
        (or (glob ".tmp" filename)
            (glob "*~" filename)
            (> (atime filename) 3)))

   So what this would boil down to is a lot of syntactic sugar for the
   most uninteresting special case the procedure might be used for. This
   isn't what scheme is all about, or is it?

some may find these kinds of things interesting, for example any scheme
program that keeps filesystem-local state.  people say using the fs for
a db is a bad idea, but for some structures, it works out pretty well.

this kind of find (of which there are some implementations -- i have
neglected my duties in organizing them and linking them to the Idea from
that page) is a good abstraction level because, as you say, some things
are most concisely expressed in ways that are familiar.

whether or not syntatctic sugar is what scheme is all about, i dunno.

thi