From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@...>
Date: 2002-01-24T16:56:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Minor thoughts on 'Find' module

At 2:52 PM +0900 1/24/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>At 2:32 PM +0900 1/24/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>So, I think I want something like:
>>
>>     Find.findx(sort=File::NO_SORT,
>>                parent_first=true,
>>                breadth_first=false,
>>                *srcdirs ) { |aFileName, aFindStat| block }
>>
>>Other values for sort= would be File::DIR_FIRST File::DIR_LAST and
>>perhaps File::ALPHABETIC
>
>I forgot to explain the other parameters.  "parent_first" means that
>the code-block will always be called with the parent directory before
>it is called with any descendents of that parent.  If that value is
>false, then the code block will not be called with the parent until
>after it has been called for all descendents.

It would probably be better for this parameter to be "parent_last"
or "send_parent_last" with a default value of false, instead of
"parent_first" with a default value of true.

Well, it would not surprise me if people came up with better names
for all of the options I suggested   :-)

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