From: Wesley J Landaker <wjl@...>
Date: 2003-02-08T06:45:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.pushdir and Dir.popdir

On Friday 07 February 2003 2:32 pm, Mark Wilson wrote:
> On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 04:10 PM, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> > [snip]
> > I don't know if this functionality is included somewhere else and I
> > just
> > missed it, but it sure is handy to have Dir be able to push and pop
> > directories as well as just chdir. I often use something like this:
> >
> > [snip]
>
> The standard library includes this functionality in shell.rb.
>
> pushdir(path = nil) {|| ...}

Thanks! That's pretty handy .. I haven't really ever used anything in 
shell.rb before.

It still "feels" better to me to have it added to the Dir object (since 
that's where chdir is) -- but fortunately, this is ruby, and I can add 
it there in my own programs easily. ;)

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