[BUG] FileDIrectory>isAFileNamed: considered vile

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Sat Aug 2 00:15:25 UTC 2003


I mean yuck. Blech.

Testing for the existence of a file by trying to open it? OK, if one is
utterly restricted to only the support guaranteed in a an ansi library
maybe we can make an excuse.

Time to extend the FilePlugin a bit. Old images on new VMs would
continue to sin as usual. New image on old VM would fail the prim and
sin for punishment. New image on new VM would do The Right Thing. 

tim
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