From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T04:57:24+09:00
Subject: Re: There must be a better way -- requiring multiple files

Stefan Lang wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 November 2005 16:37, Robert Klemme wrote:
> [...]
> > Dir[File.join(__FILE__, "..", "..", "lib", "**", "*.rb")].each {|l|
> > require l}
> [..]
>
> A side note:
>
> I have come to the conclusion that the following syntax makes
> more sense for Dir[]/Dir.glob:
>
>   Dir["#{__FILE__}/../../lib/**/*.rb"]
>
> (In other words, File.join doesn't make sense here.)
>
> Why?
>
> 1) In my opinion, it is more readable
> 2) After reading dir.c in Ruby's sources, I would say
>    that it is at least as portable as the File.join variant.
>    Others more familiar with the Ruby source already said
>    that Ruby uses slashes internally on all platforms.

I think that all unix-influenced programs that I use  under
windoze accept either slashes or backslashes.
These definitely do:
unzip, zip, awk, gawk, mawk, less, grep, sed, cat, vile, tail, diff,
strings