speed up by removing unneeded checks

Author: scivision

+stdlib/+dotnet/create_symlink.m

@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 %% DOTNET.CREATE_SYMLINK create symbolic link to target
 
 function ok = create_symlink(target, link)
-arguments
-  target (1,1) string
-  link (1,1) string
-end
 
 if ~stdlib.exists(target) || stdlib.strempty(link) || stdlib.exists(link)
   ok = false;

+stdlib/+dotnet/is_symlink.m

@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 %% DOTNET.IS_SYMLINK check if a file is a symbolic link
 
 function y = is_symlink(file)
-arguments
-  file (1,1) string
-end
 
 if ~stdlib.exists(file)
   % necessary to avoid having to catch 'MATLAB:NET:CLRException:MethodInvoke' on Windows

+stdlib/+native/samepath.m

@@ -3,24 +3,10 @@
 % this canonical string method is less preferred to using device + inode.
 
 function y = samepath(path1, path2)
-arguments
-  path1 string
-  path2 string
-end
-
-assert(isequal(size(path1), size(path2)), "path1 string array size does not match path2 array size")
-
-y = false(size(path1));
 
-y(strlength(path1) | strlength(path2)) = true;
-
-% necessary for Matlab < R2024a
-if ~any(y)
-  return
-end
+c1 = stdlib.canonical(path1, true);
+c2 = stdlib.canonical(path2, true);
 
-c1 = stdlib.canonical(path1(y), true);
-c2 = stdlib.canonical(path2(y), true);
-y(y) = strlength(c1) & strcmp(c1, c2);
+y = strlength(c1) && strcmp(c1, c2);
 
 end

+stdlib/+python/set_modtime.m

@@ -1,22 +1,17 @@
-function ok = set_modtime(file, dt)
-arguments
-  file (1,1) string
-  dt (1,1) datetime
-end
-
-if ~isfile(file)
-  ok = false;
-  return
-end
+function ok = set_modtime(file, time)
 
-utc = convertTo(datetime(dt, 'TimeZone', "UTC"), "posixtime");
+utc = convertTo(datetime(time, 'TimeZone', "UTC"), "posixtime");
 
 try
   s = py.os.stat(file);
   py.os.utime(file, py.tuple([s.st_atime, utc]));
   ok = true;
 catch e
-  ok = logical.empty;
+  if e.identifier == "MATLAB:Python:PyException" && contains(e.message, "FileNotFoundError")
+    ok = false;
+  else
+    ok = logical.empty;
+  end
 end
 
 end