Copying and moving directories
Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Feb 17 05:25:17 PST 2017
On Friday, 17 February 2017 at 11:40:35 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
>
> Well, there's a _long_ history of it being called rename on
> POSIX systems, and since the D function is a simple wrapper
> around rename, it makes sense that it's called rename, much as
> I agree that the name isn't the best for anyone not familiar
> with the C function. Regardless, changing it now would break
> code, and at this point, we pretty much never rename public
> symbols in Phobos just to improve their names.
Nobody wants to rename `rename` :-) But an additional `move`
function would be nice.
>
> [...]
I agree. std.file needs more work.
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