From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-04-05T20:51:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Strangeness in Find.find

On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 08:43:17PM +0900, Kent Dahl wrote:
> >   def find(*paths) # :yield: path
> >     paths.collect!{|d| d.dup}       # << ?!
> >     while file = paths.shift
> >       ... etc
> > 
> > For each element of the 'paths' array, it is duplicating that entry, then
> > collecting those duplicates into a new array, 
> 
> I do not think it makes a new array. It uses the same array object.
> Notice the "!".

   self.doh!

In that case though, I can't see why it is taking dup copies of the
elements: it passes them to File.lstat, Dir.open and File.join, but I don't
think any of those modify their string arguments.

Regards,

Brian.