From: ggarramuno@... (GGarramuno)
Date: 2004-01-11T03:36:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.0 bugs on Dir

>
>"The current directory on ruby mswin32" is in C:?  So it just
>works as like as "dir C:" does.
>
>What do you expect?

The command should indeed work as the msdos dir command, listing the contents
of the C: drive.  Yet, it does not.
Passing the String "C:" to it lists not the contents of the C: drive but the
contents of the current directory in my mswin32 version of ruby.  Only if I
pass "C:/" will it list the right directory.
The same version of ruby,on cygwin, works as it should, listing the contents of
C: when "C:" or "C:/" is passed to it.


> What and how inconsistent do you feel?

Oops, no inconsistency.  My bad.  
It passes the DIR object to the block.  I expected it to be a File object, just
as foreach but closing the object after, as that seemed to be much more useful
and logical.