Re: [Chicken-users] severe bug in file-exists?

[John Cowan]

Sven Hartrumpf scripsit:

> (file-exists? filename)
> Filename must be a string. The file-exists? procedure
> returns #t if the named file exists at the time the procedure
> is called, #f otherwise.

Since nothing is said about exceptions, you are free to throw one if
you cannot determine the answer.  I agree that access() is the Right
Thing here.

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