> On 26 May 2025, at 00:34, Sean McAfee <eef...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM Sean McAfee <eef...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll have to play around with your code a bit. Normally I would use > `.dir(test => /:i \.pdf / )` to pull out PDF files. > > Oh yeah, that's a bit better. I'm not as familiar with the path API as I > could be. > > ...Huh. I was just messing around with the test parameter to dir and noticed > something that seems to be a bug. If you call dir without any parameters, > the special directories "." and ".." are not returned, as mentioned on this > page. But if you pass a test parameter, those directories are eligible to be > returned. For example, dir(:test(/./)) returns ".".IO and "..".IO among its > results. > > Does anyone know if this is the intended behavior? It doesn't really seem > useful.
Afaik it is intended behaviour, as they are specifically being added in the case of the "test" argument. https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/main/src/core.c/Rakudo/Iterator.rakumod#L1524
