From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-01-24T11:04:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Minor thoughts on 'Find' module

Hi,

In message "Re: Minor thoughts on 'Find' module"
    on 02/01/24, Michael Witrant <mike@lepton.fr> writes:

|> Could you propose the possible API of the "new Find"?
|
|What about Find.find(root = '.', *options)?
|
|Possible options:
|  :files_first
|  :directories_first
|  :depth_first
|  :files_only
|  :directories_only
|  :match => regexp
|  :follow_symlinks
|  :max_depth => integer
|  :without_root # this one would delete the provided root
|                # from the returned/yielded file names
|  ...

Hmm.

|And why not all those wonderfull options find(1) provides?

Let's not do that.  find(1) is a command, Find is a part of a
program.  We don't have to fall in "UNIX option hell".  Find module is
a directory tree walker.  I think it's good to be able to specify how
it traverse the tree, but no more, i.e. :files_only, :direcoties_only,
etc. can (and should) be done in the user supplied block.

							matz.