Re: empty-directory predicate, native implementation

[Michael Albinus]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

Hi Arthur,

>>>I have chosen not to deal with it all, I check for zer set
>>> explicit limit for count to be [1,COUNT]. I am not sure if that is best
>>> thing to do; maybe just to return Qnil? I am probably doing something
>>> else wrong, advice apprecaiated.
>>
>> Returning Qnil seems to be OK, when count is 0.
>>
> What about return the length, number of the files in that case?

No, this would be another signature of the response (number instead of
list of strings).

> In order to get number of the files currently we would get list of files
> and get length of the list afterwards; if we asked to get 0 files, it
> could return the length; I thought of it afterwards.

I cannot imagine that this information is needed somewhere. Why do you
need to know, how many files are in a directory?

Berst regards, Michael.