guide bug?

[Rainer Müller]

On 27 April 2018 23:12:31 GMT+02:00, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
>On Apr 27, 2018, at 16:11, Joshua Root wrote:
>
>> On 2018-4-28 06:25 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>>> On Apr 27, 2018, at 08:10, Joshua Root wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 'move' still handles some case-sensitivity issues, but indeed
>'copy' and
>>>> 'delete' are just aliases these days. I think we don't need to
>>>> discourage the use of 'file', since if you hit the one fairly rare
>case
>>>> where there's a difference you'll know it.
>>> 
>>> Not if the bug only affects an OS version you're not using.
>> 
>> What OS version doesn't need the case-only rename code?
>
>Right now, none of the workaround are OS-specific. But you noted that
>one of them used to be. And it could easily be that a bug affects only
>some OS versions in the future.

That applies to any Tcl command. We are not wrapping them all.

The workaround for move could as well be applied to 'file move' and eliminate the wrapper. It is possible to rename builtin commands.

Rainer