From: "nikolai.weibull@..." <nikolai.weibull@...>
Date: 2007-08-15T15:44:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Does an Array#apply make any sense at all?

On Aug 14, 8:32 pm, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:

> On Aug 14, 2007, at 04:40, nikolai.weib...@gmail.com wrote:

> > On Aug 14, 11:50 am, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:

> > > Is there something wrong with Pathname#==?

> > Yes, not that it can't be fixed, but the current definition is sort of
> > broken (on all systems):

> Could you file a bug on the Ruby tracker?  (Or has it been fixed?)

Well, the documentation is pretty clear about what it does.  Even
though I'd considered it bugged.  Perhaps the semantics of Pathname#==
should be clarified before we post any change suggestions.

So, should Pathname#== respect the platforms case insensitivity, for
example, on Windows and on Mac OS?

Should Pathname#== try hard to make sure that both arguments are as
complete and clean as possible, for example, by calling
Pathname#expand_path on both arguments?  This would have to take into
account that Pathname#== currently has taken any argument that
responds to #to_s.

  nikolai