[phobos] What's the status of listDir/listdir ?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/10/11 4:47 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> The main problem with dirEntries is essentially as you point out. It doesn't
> work with anything but foreach. You can't even pass it to std.array.array to
> create an array. And it's because it's set up to work with either a string or
> a DirEntry for the loop variable. The advantage of listdir/listDir is that you
> get an actual array of strings to use when you need to pass it to something.
> Ideally, DirIterator wolud be made to work with more, but it hasn't been. I
> don't know if we want to try and turn it into a range or what, but it is a bit
> of a problem if you want to use dirEntries outside of a foreach loop.

Any chance of somebody finding the time to transform dirEntries into an 
input range? That would solve everything.

Andrei