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Re: file-exists-p on empty string


From: lg . zevlg
Subject: Re: file-exists-p on empty string
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:29:04 +0300

27 февр. 2019 г., в 22:16, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> написал(а):

>> From: address@hidden
>> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:04:15 +0300
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>>> Why do you need to reject empty strings?
>> 
>> Filenames are generated externally, and the tool uses empty string notion 
>> for no-file semantic
> 
> Isn't that un-Emacsy?  Why not nil?

That thing is out of my control, however `nil` is something specific and need 
to be handled in special way, strings are universal

Another exmaple is just a text file with filenames on each line, where empty 
lines occurs, you also need to check for empty string filenames

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lg


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