Class: Rake::FileList

A FileList is essentially an array with a few helper methods defined to make file manipulation a bit easier.

FileLists are lazy. When given a list of glob patterns for possible files to be included in the file list, instead of searching the file structures to find the files, a FileList holds the pattern for latter use.

This allows us to define a number of FileList to match any number of files, but only search out the actual files when then FileList itself is actually used. The key is that the first time an element of the FileList/Array is requested, the pending patterns are resolved into a real list of file names.

Constants
ARRAY_METHODS	List of array methods (that are not in `Object`) that need to be delegated.
DEFAULT_IGNORE_PATTERNS
DEFAULT_IGNORE_PROCS
DELEGATING_METHODS
MUST_DEFINE	List of additional methods that must be delegated.
MUST_NOT_DEFINE	List of methods that should not be delegated here (we define special versions of them explicitly below).
SPECIAL_RETURN	List of delegated methods that return new array values which need wrapping.

Public Methods
*	Redefine * to return either a string or a new file list.
==	Define equality.
[]	Create a new file list including the files listed. Similar to:
add	Alias for #include
calculate_exclude_regexp
clear_exclude	Clear all the exclude patterns so that we exclude nothing.
egrep	Grep each of the files in the filelist using the given pattern. If a block is given, call the block on each matching line, passing the file name, line number, and the matching line of text. If no block is given, a standard emac style file:linenumber:line message will be printed to standard out.
exclude	Register a list of file name patterns that should be excluded from the list. Patterns may be regular expressions, glob patterns or regular strings. In addition, a block given to exclude will remove entries that return true when given to the block.
exclude?	Should the given file name be excluded?
existing	Return a new file list that only contains file names from the current file list that exist on the file system.
existing!	Modify the current file list so that it contains only file name that exist on the file system.
ext	Return a new array with `String#ext` method applied to each member of the array.
gsub	Return a new FileList with the results of running `gsub` against each element of the original list.
gsub!	Same as `gsub` except that the original file list is modified.
import	@exclude_patterns = DEFAULT_IGNORE_PATTERNS.dup
include	Add file names defined by glob patterns to the file list. If an array is given, add each element of the array.
is_a?	Lie about our class.
kind_of?	Alias for #is_a?
new	Create a file list from the globbable patterns given. If you wish to perform multiple includes or excludes at object build time, use the "yield self" pattern.
partition	FileList version of partition. Needed because the nested arrays should be FileLists in this version.
pathmap	Apply the pathmap spec to each of the included file names, returning a new file list with the modified paths. (See String#pathmap for details.)
resolve	Resolve all the pending adds now.
sub	Return a new FileList with the results of running `sub` against each element of the oringal list.
sub!	Same as `sub` except that the oringal file list is modified.
to_a	Return the internal array object.
to_ary	Return the internal array object.
to_s	Convert a FileList to a string by joining all elements with a space.

Private Methods
add_matching	Add matching glob patterns.
resolve_add
resolve_exclude

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