From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-10-26T02:30:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Pathname.exists?()

On Oct 25, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Tanaka Akira wrote:

> In article <FCA1C394-E968-4229-BA31-9ECE81E79E7B@grayproductions.net>,
>   James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> writes:
>
>
>> Pathname supports the legacy exist?() method, but not the current
>> exists?().  Attached is the one-line fix to add Pathname.exists?().
>>
>
> Ruby prefer exist? over exists?.
>
> % ri File.exist\?
> -----------------------------------------------------------  
> File::exist?
>      File.exist?(file_name)    =>  true or false
>      File.exists?(file_name)   =>  true or false    (obsolete)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> --
>      Return +true+ if the named file exists.

Oops.  I guess it's me who has the wrong behavior.  Thanks for the  
correction.

James Edward Gray II