From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2002-03-14T05:23:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Some potential RCRs

<bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Mar.13.02@telemark.stanford.edu> wrote in message
news:a6nq50$q4m$1@usenet.Stanford.EDU...
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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.

Exactly what I was getting at.

    Sean