doesFileExist and doesDirectoryExist overly verbose?

Erik Hesselink hesselink at gmail.com
Wed Jun 5 15:06:20 CEST 2013


Those names suggest checks to see if something is a file or directory,
not existence checks.

Regarding the original question: I don't think this should be changed,
because the current names aren't that bad, and changing them would
break a lot of code.

Erik


On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
> I'm personally quite fond of system-fileio's naming scheme: isFile and
> isDirectory. Actually, I generally find system-fileio and system-filepath to
> be a great set of libraries for most file operations.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:41 PM, harry <voldermort at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> doesFileExist and doesDirectoryExist seem overly verbose - wouldn't
>> fileExists and directoryExists be better?
>>
>> Not a major issue, but easily fixed.
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