From: Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2001-02-24T22:50:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11451] Re: Dir#each -- include '.'?

Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
>>"Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > The problem is that the glob is somewhere splitting the
> > argument list on a space.  Ordinarily I would just tell
> > you to escape it, but it seems that Ruby does not
> > follow traditional escaping semantics. :-(
>
>I think this probably counts as a bug.
>
Which, splitting on the space or not following the
traditional escaping semantics?

Personally I think I would like splitting on the
space, but following usual escaping semantics.  (And
documented that way in Programming Ruby.)

Cheers,
Ben
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