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Re: file-exists-p on empty string


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: Re: file-exists-p on empty string
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:16:19 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:43:29 +0100
>> Cc: Evgeny Zajcev <address@hidden>, emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Thatʼs not described in the doc-string though, so itʼs surprising
>> behaviour.
>
> It's a corner use case that comes up once in 10 years, so I'm not sure
> we should care enough about it to describe it in the doc string.

I was advocating for changing the behaviour, then we donʼt need to
describe it (but hysterical raisins and backwards compatibility and
all that.....)

Robert



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