From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-07-23T10:45:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Digest Articles 261154-261275 (11/13) (ruby-talk ML)

On 7/22/07, Chris Dwan <radixhound@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> That doesn't make any sense! File.exists? is a class method, and if I
> try to do File.open, it will fail because the file doesn't exist, so
> I'll have to catch the exception. It basically means File.exists? is
> useless so I should just use exceptions to handle stuff like this.. ?
>
>

You can't read certain files that exist; like directories, for
example.  I'm not sure what Windows XP does for a guest user trying to
read hidden or system files.

Todd