um... Could you explain why I should care if merlyn gets touchy? Again, not to rant but.

Just because he's virtually a perl God?....
I don't buy that as a reason. It's a good reason to listen to him when he rants, but not a good reason for avoiding the exploration of ideas.

Recursion is sometimes a useful programming tool. If we never use recursion just because of the danger of infinite loops and merlyn's touchiness, we will never learn how to effectively program recursions that aviod infinite loops.

Finally merlyn has not appeared as touchy to me as he has to you. Full of advice, and willing to warn someone of the dangers of a particular approach, yes... touchy no.
Quit to tout the benefits of prebuilt cross-platform-friendly modules, yes... Touchy no.
So, how about a little room to flex our brains and try out that recursive loop every once in a while... We know where our CTRL+ALT+Delete keys and our power buttons are.

In reply to RE: Re: Scanning static directory tree for files by raflach
in thread Scanning static directory tree for files by shandor

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