The receiver object is the instance of .File created using myPath. The
error is caused by the File object instance, but the root cause is the path
you created it from.
Rick
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Staffan Tylen <staffan.ty...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> And I've been reading the doc like this: "If the receiver object is not a
> .directory then the result is .nil." :(
>
> Thanks Rick.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Probably because myPath is not a directory, which causes it to return
>> .nil, just like the documentation says.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Staffan Tylen <staffan.ty...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm facing a problem with the following:
>>>
>>> files=.File~new(myPath)~list
>>> loop file over files~allitems
>>> say file
>>> end
>>>
>>> Error 97.1: Object "The NIL object" does not understand message
>>> "ALLITEMS"
>>>
>>> Looking in the doc I find the following strange sentence:
>>>
>>> "If the receiver object is not a directory then the result is .nil."
>>>
>>> To be honest I don't understand what this sentence means. The list
>>> method is supposed to return an array but for some reason I get a .nil
>>> object.
>>>
>>> Staffan
>>>
>>>
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