On 03-07-2013, at 12:38 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whew, that's a lot of adjectives!
Indeed, a scrumptiously over-indulgent miscellany of amply audacious adjectives.

> 
> I vaguely understand by looking at #directoryContentsFor:do:.  I guess
> I had thought #entries was the primitive itself, but I think you're
> saying calling #primLookupEntryIn:index: is inefficient to be calling
> again and again for just one entry..  Too bad.

Take a look at the appalling usages of #entries (which is the only real user of directoryContentsFor:). We even have code that enumerates the entire directory in order to find out if it is empty and can be deleted! Insanity! We find out if a file exists by enumerating everything using the primitive and then enumerating the resultant collection. Aaaargh! I think my brain just segfaulted.


tim
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