From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-01-28T00:44:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir[] and File.stat(str).directory? on Win98

Hi,

In message "Dir[] and File.stat(str).directory? on Win98"
    on 02/01/27, Stephan K�mper <Stephan.Kaemper@t-online.de> writes:

|Now that seems to be kind of inconststent to me. "File.stat" works 
|as I think it should. But "Dir[]" only works with unixish file names,
|not with the dosish backslashes...

Yes.  It's known restriction.

|As far as I see I could work around this by redefining Dir[] so that 
|it gsubs any \es into /es and then calls the original Dir[]...
|
|But how would I 'alias' a class method correctly?

I'm not sure gsub'ing works properly for complicated cases.  But
anyway, you can do

  class <<Dir
    alias old_glob []
    def []
     ... use old_glob ..
    end
    alias glob []
  end

							matz.