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From: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
Cc: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (file-exists-p "") --> t??
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:25:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b501d5c0904270525i70160940m9f389a38b4e68212@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LyPkj-00074Y-2L@fencepost.gnu.org>

2009/4/27 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org>:
> I guess that makes sense, I am actually fiine with the behaviour,
> other than it is annoying when you use file-exists-p in a loop, and
> you start of with a empty string...
>
> (let ((foo ""))
>  (while (not (file-exists-p foo))
>    (setq foo (generate-foo-some-how))))

Why not use the following?

(let ((foo (generate-foo-some-how)))
 (while (not (file-exists-p foo))
   (setq foo (generate-foo-some-how))))

--
Deniz




  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-27 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-27 12:08 (file-exists-p "") --> t?? Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-04-27 12:12 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-04-27 12:16   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-04-27 12:25     ` Deniz Dogan [this message]
2009-04-29 10:00       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-04-27 12:28     ` Harald Hanche-Olsen

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