On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:17:59AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> 
> "Small, sharp tools" and all that :-)

One of the smallest, sharpest tools I have is a script called C<lns>.  It 
takes a file name and a link name and creates a link to the file.  The best
part is that it doesn't care about the order of the file and the link.  It
simply DWIM.  My concern with symlink_ok() is that I'll go to use it and
have to repeatedly check the syntax to see which should be the link and which
should be the file.  Although I don't mind writing tests, I'd prefer a 
test function that doesn't force me to think about the syntax of the test
function and let me focus on writing test cases to match the documentation.

P.S. See http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/24654 for the most recent
incarnation of lns.

Steve Peters
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