"Thorsten Kampe" <thors...@thorstenkampe.de> wrote in message news:mpg.284834d227e3acd1989...@news.individual.de... > > If someone has learned what a directory or folder is, you don't have to > explain what "include sub-folders" means. Instead of creating a new > mysterious term ("recursively delete"), you simply explain stuff by re- > using an already existing term. It's just that simple.
I'm a native english speaker, and to me there is a difference between "delete directory and sub-directories" (or folders and sub-folders if you follow Microsoft's naming conventions) and "recursively delete". I know english is very ambiguous, but to me "directory and sub-directories" does not necessarily imply sub-directories of sub-directories and so on, while "recursively delete" does carry the connotation of deleting the sub-directories of sub-directories and sub-directories of sub-directories of sub-directories and so on. Charles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
