From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2002-03-20T00:19:02+09:00
Subject: Re: dots in Dir.entries (OT)

Ron Jeffries wrote:

>On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:11:32 GMT, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote:
>
>>I agree that is a little annoying to have to filter those
>>when you do not want them (which is most of the time), but
>>there are situations where it is important that they are
>>not filtered out.  I would not mind if this was a different
>>method name, but I do think it needs to be available.
>>
>
>Most of the time, most Windows-based Ruby apps filter these alleged filenames.
>If there's a standard way in Ruby to do this, we'll all use it. If not, we'll
>all write our own. Which way would the world be better?
>
Ron - you have a wondeful way of asking the right question to make 
answer the original question.  In most cases, it settles so many 
disputes so peacfully.  I would like to learn to do this.  Is this an 
established technique, vast experience, your mellow mindset, or 
something else?

Thanks.
David

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