Re^2: What makes File::Find's interface so commonly hated

[ikegami]

Not so. I use a module whose callback returns 0 or 1 for last or next respectively.

sub callback {
    my ($found) = @_;
    print $found->filename, "\n";

    return 0 if $found->pathname =~ $end_condition;
    return 1 if $found->pathname =~ $skip_condition;

    process($found);
    return 1;
}

Constants would improve readability.

[revdiablo]

As I said, this is certainly possible with a callback interface. What you've shown is a way to do that, but it's not using the standard next and last operators, so it's not quite as easy to follow or understand.

I should probably also note that I don't have a big problem with callback interfaces generally, nor with File::Find specifically. But I can certainly say in this case, one alternative is slightly nicer than the other.