Re: When is File/Dir.exists?() false?

"Mark Hahn" <[email protected]> writes:

>> Shouldn't size() be fully recursive? Otherwise it
>> might be misleading to users. Of course, this could
>> take awhile if the dir is large.
>
> This was just a practical decision.  I could be talked into making it
> recursive.  My thinking was that you could add code to make it recursive
> yourself.
>
> Comments?  Votes?


Is there anytime that you would want the size of the directory and
NOT have it be recursive?  I've done a lot of du -s in my day and
counted the # of items in a single layer of a directory.

In the other situations, it's easy enough to iterate over the list of
the directory
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