http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3459

           Summary: There should be a flavor of file.listdir() that
                    returns a range instead of taking a delegate
           Product: D
           Version: 2.035
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Phobos
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: llucax@gmail.com


--- Comment #0 from Leandro Lucarella <llucax@gmail.com> 2009-10-30 21:21:07 PDT ---
This idiom:

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foreach (f; listdir(some_dir))
    writeln(f);
----

is much more simpler, convenient and clearer than:

----
listdir(some_dir, (string f) { writeln(f) });
----

Which looks more obscure (specially when the callback is more complex.

The first idiom was not possible in D1 without allocating an array for the elements, which can be inefficient, but with ranges in place in D2, I think listdir() should use them.

Thanks.

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Leandro Lucarella <llucax@gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID


--- Comment #1 from Leandro Lucarella <llucax@gmail.com> 2009-10-30 21:35:15 PDT ---
OMG! listdir is a opApply candidate, so foreach can be used already with it...

Damn! I should go to bed...

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