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

Chris Green wrote:
> "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

I guess it's also a matter of consistency.  delete and make are recursive.
I was just being lazy.  That's what you guys are for, keeping me honest
(making more work for me).