From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-09-24T00:33:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.foreach not with patterns?

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 12:33:54 AM, Alan wrote:

> ts wrote:
>>                 next if f == "." or f == ".."

> I did used to do that.  I can't even remember why I changed it to a regexp!

Come on, you can't resist.

  class Object
    def in?(enum)
      enum.include?(self)
    end
  end

  ...
    next if f.in? [".", ".."]
  ...

Isn't that much nicer? ;)
  
Gavin