Re: [Chicken-users] file-exists? on Windows

[Kon Lovett]

On May 11, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Sorry for the maybe stupid question: is the following expression
> supposed to return #f on Windows?
>
>   (file-exists? ".\\")
>
> (file-exists? (current-directory)) returns the path to the current
> directory.
>
> Under Unix[-like] systems, (file-exists? "./") returns the path to the
> current directory.

Version 2.614 - macosx-unix-gnu-ppc - [ libffi dload ptables  
extraslot applyhook ]
(c)2000-2007 Felix L. Winkelmann
; loading ./.csirc ...
#;1> (file-exists? "./")
"./"

The implementation (##sys#expand-home-path in library.scm) only  
expands a leading tilde, '~', or environment variable reference,  
'$FOO'. There isn't any special recognition of the current directory  
'directory'.

> Shouldn't (file-exists? ".\\") return the path to the current
> directory?

Not according to the documentation. But this can be changed.

> Best wishes,
> Mario
>
>
>
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