Just because the file is called "nonexistent_file" doesn't mean is doesn't
exist.
It's a poorly written example really.
if "possibly_existing_file".IO.e {
say "file exists";
}
else {
say "file doesn't exist";
}
Is more intuitive I would say.
On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 at 09:53 ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://docs.perl6.org/language/io.html
>
> From the above manual, the example to check if a file exists:
>
>
> if "nonexistent_file".IO.e {
> say "file exists";
> }
> else {
> say "file doesn't exist";
> }
>
>
> Sound backwards to me. What am I missing?
>
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>
>
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