> As Owen observed, actually listing all files on the system is not
practical.
Not practical? Come on, it's one line of code:
`find /`.split(/\n/)
...oh wait, you're right, that won't work on MS Windows. :)
I think returning the empty list (or some other notion of "not implemented")
> is a reasonable thing to do.
>
What about something along the lines of Luke's idea, with default recurse =
1 to replicate the old behaviour? Or having it _not_ recuse but take a path
(which defaults to "/")? Or a glob pattern?
Basically (and joking aside) I don't like having a dead spot in a language
based on "oh but you couldn't possibly want that" reasoning. If we're
worried that innocent users will stumble into a firehose we can arrange
things so they have to work at it (make the defaults be something safely
limited).
-- M
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