From: Nate Wiger <nwiger@...>
Date: 2006-12-05T03:17:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.exist?

Kornelius Kalnbach wrote:
> hi!
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice to have
> 
>   Dir.exist?('somedir')
> 
> as an alias for File.directory? It seems quite understandable that a 
> nuby in our
> German forum just asked why it wasn't working.
> [murphy]

I like it personally - why not consider filing a feature ticket with 
patch? (I remember seeing many posts here about using the "alias" macro 
in Ruby .c source which appears simple to do)

-Nate