Rmk2 #582
Rmk2 #582
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Turns out that FILEDATE of a compiled file returns the creation date of the source, not the compiled file. To get the proper date for both source and compiled files, you have to first call it with CFLG=T, if that is NIL, try with CFLG=NIL, if that's NIL it isn't a Medley file, use the creation date. Would be more intuititive with different semantics: (FILEDATE xx NIL) should give you the date of this file whether compiled or not, (FILEDATE xx T) should give you the date of the source file, if it happens to be a compiled file. I.e, CFLG → SFLG
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I'm wondering if it was the way it was so that one would notice that the compiled file date was the same as (different from) the source file date as a hint that they were (were not) a matched pair?
That could have been the rationale. But then, that would have been only one of the reasonable use cases. Maybe there should be (have been) a separate entry that more clearly lets you ask for the kind of date you want--date of this file, or date of the source file if this is a compiled file ((→ NIL if this is not a compiled file). But I have patched around it for now. |
A few more minor updates