dennis luehring wrote: > why is there an exception/error neeeded if missing?
Exceptions or errors are not _needed_. Their existence stems from the modell under which the user of the operation _has_ to think about the operation, especially whether it is a:only the outcome of the operation or b:the amount of work to get to this outcome and maybe c:at runtime has to be known, whether the object exists. Jesse Phillips wrote: > I have a lot of if(exists) remove() in my code As one can see, Jesse does not know, whether the object exists and has to ask, before he in fact removes the object, i.e. doubled access to the file, which may cause a slowdown. As Jesse states the designer of the API has made up false assumptions about his knowledge, described in c:, _and_ his interests, described in b:. Jesse is interested only in the outcome of the operation, as described in a:, Therefore the likely answer to your question stated at the beginning is: the designer of the API made a mistake. -manfred
