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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 16:30:01 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 10:44:03 -0800
From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970305103012.2721A-100000@shellx.best.com>
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Recursive directory traversal in Icon
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Status: RO
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Hi,
I've been reading the Icon web references, trying to decide if I
should forsake Perl in favor of Icon, and I have two questions.
(1) How do I traverse a hierarchical directory structure in Icon? I found
chdir, but I didn't find the equivalent of 'ls' and 'stat'. Is there
a way to do this in Icon, or do you rely on the external environment?
(2) Why no module system? I've found modules helpful in every language I've
worked with, and Icon doesn't seem to be different in that it could use
such a system. I noticed someone else mention this, but it is not in
the FAQ. Perl has benefitted greatly from the inclusion of modules.
-- Brian