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Should readdir return an iterator? #27393

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malmaud opened this issue Jun 3, 2018 · 1 comment
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Should readdir return an iterator? #27393

malmaud opened this issue Jun 3, 2018 · 1 comment
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collections Data structures holding multiple items, e.g. sets filesystem Underlying file system and functions that use it

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malmaud commented Jun 3, 2018

Seems kind of weird that readdir just returns a Vector{String} instead of a lazy generator, since you can always go from the latter to the former. For reference, Python's pathlib.Path.iterdir, the equivalent function, does return a generator.
@ararslan ararslan added collections Data structures holding multiple items, e.g. sets filesystem Underlying file system and functions that use it labels Jun 3, 2018
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It does seem like an iterator would be better.

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