Re: file-exists-p on empty string

[lg.zevlg@gmail.com]

> 27 февр. 2019 г., в 18:43, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> написал(а):
> 
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> Evgeny Zajcev <lg.zevlg@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> Hi Evgeny,
>> 
>>> It was quite surprising for me that
>>> 
>>>  (file-exists-p "")
>>>  ==> t
>>> 
>>> I thought that `file-exists-p` resembles stat, such as
>>> 
>>>  $ stat ""
>>>  No such file or directory
>>> 
>>> This is because `file-exists-p` uses `expand-file-name`, which returns
>>> current directory for empty string
>>> 
>>> Would not it be more correct for `file-exists-p` to return `nil` for
>>> empty string, and if someone wants current directory he will use "."
>>> as filename?
>> 
>> I believe the current behavior is correct. file-exists-p calls
>> expand-file-name, and (expand-file-name "") returns always
>> default-directory.
> 
> Thatʼs not described in the doc-string though, so itʼs surprising
> behaviour.
> 

Yeah, exactly, I’m ok with the current behaviour if it was described in doc-string!

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lg