Feature #427: FileTest return values

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• Target version: -

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It would be more convenient if FileTest.directory? and FileTest.file? and perhaps some other FileTest methods returned the receiver if true, rather than just true value. That would allow the test to be used with assignments. E.g.

dir = FileTest.directory?('/home')

instead of

dir = '/home' if FileTest.directory?('/home')

The change is backward compatible. However, it would effect Pathname, which may need to be adjusted to take this into account properly.
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[ko1 (Koichi Sasada)]

• Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

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[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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this is short, but unintuitive, I think.
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