Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!imagen!atari!apratt From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Hidden folders (was Hidden Files) Message-ID: <2830@atari.UUCP> Date: 11 Feb 91 20:10:31 GMT References: <1991Jan16.163558.26338@arc.ab.ca> <1991Jan21.053855.1449@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <8800@star.cs.vu.nl> <15861@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <2814@atari.UUCP> <2088@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> <2827@atari.UUCP> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 17 >apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes: >>For example, some places in the code could >>check for [...] (attr == SUBDIR). wolfram@ikki.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) writes: >If it is allowed to criticize the Sensei: >This a a VERY bad programming style. Tell me about it. I didn't write GEMDOS, I inherited it. Besides, I didn't say this was the case, I said it might be. I think it is. I haven't looked. I choose not to look, so as to keep the possibility open. It's like Schroedinger's Cat: if you don't look, you don't know. In this case, I want to assume (and I want you all to assume) it's unsafe. ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt