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Check the comment four levels above. Apparently it is not at all intuitive that folders can be inside other folders.
by saint_fiasco 9y ago
Check the comment four levels above. Apparently it is not at all intuitive that folders can be inside other folders.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoI don't understand that, the folder was picked for the filing cabinet metaphor. But in a filing cabinet system you have different cabinets, different drawers, different hanging files and various lower level arrangements - non-hanging folders (or drawer dividers), paper clips, staples. Perhaps they never saw a filing cabinet? Or never put something in a box, then in another box? When they put food in a cupboard do they empty it out of the current container first? <<Your house is a drive, every room is a "folder", every container in every room is a "folder", every container inside another is a "folder", every object is a "file".>> I've come across it, just assumed that no-one explained the metaphor to them.
- klibertp 9y ago> I've come across it, just assumed that no-one explained the metaphor to them. If it was this simple, there would be no people who struggle to understand recursion. And I know of quite a few.