Its often said that File::Find has a horrible interface. I'm curious why people think this, and how they think it could be improved.

Well - I wouldn't go as far as horrible. Insufficiently abstracted maybe. I find File::Find::Rule much more useful most of the time because:

• I don't have to mess around with long global vars like $File::Find::name
• I don't have to write any code for the common case of collecting all the matching results
• I have a declarative style that I find much easier to read and maintain
• I can never remember how no_chdir, follow and follow_fast affects the behaviour of the $_ and the $File::Find::* variables without referring to the docs.
• F::F::R makes it easy for me to compose rules
• Changing directories by default is wrong for me most of the time.

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