I pushed a doc update, but forgot to reply. The documentation now clarifies that `in-directory' recursively traverses subdirectories, and it suggests `directory-list' for just the immediate content of a directory.
At Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:21:57 -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/sequences.html?q=read-directory#(def._((li > b._racket/private/base..rkt)._in-directory)) > says that the form will ``Return a sequence that produces all of the > paths for files, directories, and links with dir. '' That's > ungrammatical, but worse, it gave me no clue that it will return all > files _at any depth_, similar to the Unix comand "find dir". I'd > expected it to return only immediate children of dir, similarly to > "find dir -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1"; I was surprised when (in-directory > "/tmp") complained about not being able to open > "/tmp/some-subdirectory/" due to permissions problems. > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
