[22007] portutil.tcl mods / more portfile.7 changes needed?

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Feb 13, 2007, at 9:45 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> That said, as long as I'm the only user of find (as I believe is  
> the case) I am tempted to make some changes to the API. For  
> example, the filter really should be an expr expression by default  
> (as is the case with if/while/etc.), and the $filename variable  
> really should have its name specified in the call, so it doesn't  
> override an existing $filename (i.e. find basedir {filter}  
> filevarname {some expression with $filevarname} ).

As the author of that find function, both of those changes seem  
reasonable to me.  In hindsight, I should have at least buried the  
"magic $filename variable" behind an underscore or something, but  
making it non-magic is an even better idea (sort of similar to  
parameters in ruby blocks).

- Jordan


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