From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-02-17T22:46:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22196] Re: File#size et al

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:22088] File#size et al"
    on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:26:09 +0900, Roger Pack <rogerdpack@gmail.com> writes:

|In a recent discussion[1] on some more "convenience" methods for File,
|it seems that quite a few methods would be convenient for it
|
|File#size # does a stat.size or a flush then a size.

Currently we have File#stat and #atime, #mtime, #ctime.  What else do
you think we need?  Besides that requirement for flushing may vary
methods to methods.

|A few things that would be nice:
|1) more methods on an existing file

Please more concrete.  What kind of methods, with what concrete
behavior?

|2) more intuitive structure--currently there's File FileUtils Dir
|FileTest etc.
|  ex: you can do File.directory? but not Dir.directory? and Pathname
|has no rm_rf.

Forget about FileTest, which is a package for file test module
functions.  It's for inclusion when you want to call test methods in
functional style.

If you want "more intuitive structure", you have to describe
"intuitive structure" first, since intuitiveness is very subjective.
I don't think merely adding methods to Dir makes structure intuitive.

							matz.