On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:59 AM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:
> On 09/28/2017 09:53 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > >> On 09/28/2017 09:45 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: >> >>> IO::Path's .f method. (Or .e to not require it to be a file, etc. as >>> usual.) >>> >>> pyanfar Z$ 6 '".profile".IO.f.say' >>> True >>> >> >> How do I get this to give me a "False" instead of crashing >> and wagging the finger at me? >> >> $ perl6 -e 'say "eraseme.txt".IO.f;' >> True >> >> $ perl6 -e 'say "erasxeme.txt".IO.f;' >> Failed to find '/home/linuxutil/erasxeme.txt' while trying to do '.f' >> in block <unit> at -e line 1 >> > > method f > > Defined as: > > method f(--> Bool:D) > > Returns True if the invocant is a path that exists and is > a file. The method will fail with X::IO::DoesNotExist if > the path points to a non-existent filesystem entity. > > maybe it is suppose to crash? This sounds broken, actually; I understand that a Failure treated as a Bool prevented it from throwing, so it should have simply returned False. Checking it for .defined *does* prevent throwing. Still seems like a bug. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
