From: 101b147ch@...
Date: 2014-04-09T21:49:02+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:61928] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9716] FileTest.exist? does not convert relative path to absolute path before testing existence

Issue #9716 has been updated by Mario Maia.


Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Methods of `FileTest` don't expand the arguments implicitly.

Shouldn't they do that? I mean, I can understand `FileTest` not doing it, but `Pathname#exist?` has the same behavior, and I think this is kinda silly. Can you at least explain to me this decision?



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Bug #9716: FileTest.exist? does not convert relative path to absolute path before testing existence
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9716#change-46131

* Author: Mario Maia
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: core
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 2.1.1p76 (2014-02-24 revision 45161) [i686-linux]
* Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN
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`FileTest.exist?(Pathname.new('~/derp').expand_path) => true`
`FileTest.exist?(Pathname.new('~/derp')) => false`



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