Re: Why are os.remove and os.remove in the OS library instead of the IO library?

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 14/08/2022 04:23, Ryan Starrett wrote:
> Typo in title, os.remove & os.rename.

I guess because they not only are platform-dependent but also 
OS-dependent: there are platforms in which there is no file system where 
those operations would make no sense, whereas those in io library could 
still be performed. Don't make the names fool you: Lua I/O model follows 
strictly that of C, in which a file is not an actual filesystem file, 
but it's an abstract entity (defined in the C standard).

So, for example, you could have an embedded system with no file-system, 
but still you could have a C "FILE" represent an I/O channel over, say, 
an SPI or USART interface.

My 2 cents.

-- Lorenzo



> On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 10:22 PM Ryan Starrett <pyryanggg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This confused me. The only reason I could think would be that their
> > behavior is very platform dependent, but that's also true for IO functions.
> > Why are these functions in OS instead of IO?