It's definitely platform specific behavior at least - on Windows it returns the list in alphabetical order.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 13 Sep 2006 05:20:12 -0000, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Graham</b> <
<a href="mailto:pg@ycombinator.com">pg@ycombinator.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Is it defined what order directory-list returns filenames in?
<br>It currently seems to return files in order of creation. This<br>is extremely convenient for the app I'm writing, and it would<br>be handy if I could count on it... --pg<br>_________________________________________________
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