[plt-scheme] request to add directory-list*

Why don't you put together a planet package with this functionality?



On May 6, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> On May  6, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>> I think directory-list* should be a part of mzscheme as defined
>> basically by:
>>   (define (directory-list* dir)
>>       (map (lambda (x) (build-path dir x)) (directory-list dir)))
>
> Yes, this is a common operation, but so are these:
>
> * Sorting (often you want that even if you don't want that, since bugs
>   that depend on the order of files are not the kind of bugs you want
>   to be responsible for)
>
> * Removing dot-files (and hidden files on Windows).
>
> * Filtering the resulting list with some predicate.
>
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