Feature #3427: instances of Dir class can't be compared

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: mame (Yusuke Endoh)
• Target version: 2.0.0

[coatl (caleb clausen)]

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Dir#== and friends seem to be absent.

$ install/bin/ruby -e 'p Dir.new(".")==Dir.new(".")'
false
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[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Target version set to 2.0.0

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Hi,

2010/6/11 caleb clausen [e-mail]:

Dir#== and friends seem to be absent.

In principle, absent method is not a bug.
I move this ticket to 1.9.x feature.

File#== is also absent, but I think it is arguable whether it
should return true or false:

f1 = File.new("foo.txt")
f2 = File.new("foo.txt")
f1.gets
p f1 == f2 #=> true expected? or false?

--
Yusuke Endoh [e-mail]
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[coatl (caleb clausen)]

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Oh, I see. Dir is actually a directory handle. I was thinking it was just a wrapper around the directory name; more akin to a Pathname than a File.

I agree, that makes == for Dir instances much less likely to be needed.
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[nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura)]

• Assignee set to mame (Yusuke Endoh)
• Description updated (diff)
• Status changed from Open to Rejected

Marked as Rejected since the original poster agreed that it's less likely to be needed.