From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-04-05T21:41:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Strangeness in Find.find

On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 09:03:25PM +0900, Kent Dahl wrote:
> Brian Candler wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Perhaps not, but what about when it is used with a block, into which the
> elements are yielded? The block might call modifying methods on the
> strings or objects given.

Yep, good point. It could have done

      yield file.dup

but that would give unnecessary duplication where the filename was generated
from a directory expansion.

Thanks for the insight...

Brian.