Mojo::File hide and unhide

[s1037989]

What do you think about adding a couple methods to Mojo::File to hide/unhide a file by prepending or removing a dot (.) from the beginning of the basename? The list method respects hidden file notation.

hidden/visible could return a Mojo::File object with the hidden or visible form; or hide/unhide could actually move_to the file to a hidden or unhidden state.

This is particularly useful when writing a file to a directory being monitored by inotify. inotify create events are triggered immediately, not when the file is finished writing; therefore it is common convention to write to a hidden file first and making it visible after the file is finished writing.

[jhthorsen]

I don't see this happening, since people might also want to add ".bak", ".tmp" or something else as well.

[s1037989]

Thanks, @jhthorsen ! Fair enough. A role then, I assume, is the appropriate approach? What do you think about a more generic "Transform" role?