For me it's just the Principle of Least Surprise. 

I find that almost every single time (in ruby, perl, whatever) I get a
listing of current directories, I end up manually cutting out "." and
"..". Actually, I can't think of any one time I've actually needed them.

Perhaps an optional argument to not display those, or vice versa...

my $0.02,
-mike

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 02:22, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could you summarize pros and cons for filtering dot files (. and ..)
> from Dir.entries and Dir.each, please?
> 
> 							matz.