From: bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Mar.13.02@...
Date: 2002-03-14T00:39:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Some potential RCRs

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In article <3C8E3C81.9010605@pinkjuice.com>,
Tobias Reif  <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> wrote:
>Bob Alexander wrote:
>
>
>> Dir methods that produce directory entries should never produce "." and 
>> "..".
>
>
>seems to make sense
>

- - Not to me. A dir method that doesn't return "." and ".." 
would be EVIL. I want to know all the entries in the directory
not what some damn fool library author thinks I should be 
interested in. Down that path lies madness...  

- - A much better solution would be added support for file "type"
matching. I.e. give me all the "simple" files in this directory
or give me all the symlinks, or all the subdirs... Something 
similar to the kind of knobs that unix find gives you.   

- - Booker C. Bense 

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