Re: [SUGGESTION] Some lfs functionality in os library, please!

[Aapo Talvensaari <aapo.talvensaari@...>]

On 8 September 2016 at 10:58, Aapo Talvensaari <aapo.talvensaari@gmail.com> wrote:

I usually put Lua in a group of Perl/Python/Ruby/PHP/_javascript_. All of these do have these basic filesystem calls in their base libraries.

 

I did some checking for a wide variety of scripting languages:

Perl: https://docs.perl6.org/language/io
Python: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/os.html#files-and-directories
PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.dir.php
Ruby: https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.3.1/Dir.html
_javascript_: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/doc/api/fs.html
Dart: https://api.dartlang.org/stable/1.19.1/dart-io/Directory-class.html
R: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/list.files.html (https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/files2.html)
_vbscript_: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/95dtkhsz(v=vs.84).aspx
Tcl: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/glob.htm (https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/file.htm)
Pike: https://pike.lysator.liu.se/generated/manual/modref/ex/predef_3A_3A/get_dir.html
Clojure: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/file-seq