[Issue 15102] Unified function to remove files/directories

[via Digitalmars-d-bugs]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15102

--- Comment #2 from Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> ---
(In reply to Vladimir Panteleev from comment #1)
> Why? This corresponds to neither how the OS APIs work nor how it's done in
> the shell - there are separate commands to remove a file, directory or a
> directory and its contents.

I don't think that matters at all. Why would we build all these abstractions in
the first place?

> If the program created a file/directory, it should already know what sort of
> filesystem object it is. I can't think of many situations where this would
> be useful.

Yes, but I can't imagine why I would want to use separate API's for that. Do
you want to use different operators for addition for "long" and for "int" as
well? I mean, I assume you know what type it is.

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