From: Marko Schulz <in6x059@...>
Date: 2002-03-17T08:17:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Some potential RCRs

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:43:55PM +0900, Guy N. Hurst wrote:
> Bob Alexander wrote:
> > 
> > On the topic of whether ".." and "." should be in our directory
> > listings:
> > 
> > Can someone suggest an argument as to why having them in the listed
> > entries is useful?
> 
> I often use ls -al in the shell because I also need to see the 
> permissions and/or owner of '.'

Yes, in the shell I use it for that too. But not while programming in
Ruby.

> I use Dir["*"] to avoid them being included. 

This has the drawback of also excluding all the other files starting
with a period, at least under Unix.

-- 
marko schulz