From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-03-29T08:33:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.glob => Enumerable.glob?

Thomas S�ndergaard wrote:
> 
> > What do you mean?  Enumerable#grep using "wildcard pattern
> > matching?"
> 
> Exactly, that would be useful to me, and I'm wondering whether it would be
> useful to others.
> 
> I think that compared to Java, the ruby built-in classes and the standard
> library are somewhat harder to extend. For instance IO is a bit big and
> monolithic (imho, hence my RCR about it) - it is easy to use, but hard to
> extend or partiallly reuse. I still prefer ruby, though ;-)
> 
> > # However Dir itself isn't Enumerable.
> 
> irb(main):009:0> Dir.included_modules
> [Enumerable, Kernel]

I think what he meant by "itself" was that glob is a class method of
Dir, not an instance method.