From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2beebd265d3a7f66,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dweller@dfw.net (David Weller) Subject: File_Exists doesn't exist? Date: 1996/06/20 Message-ID: <4qc3ca$odt@dfw.dfw.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 161234568 organization: DFWNet -- Public Internet Access newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Nothing like adding in functionality that isn't standard....one of our junior engineers asked how to check for the existence of a file without creating a block and catching a Name_Error exception after calling open. I looked at him like he was from outer space and told him that was what the File_Exists operation was for. Unfortunately, there was no such critter (but an example in 11.4.2 shows such a call (I know, just because it's there doesn't mean it's part of the language, it could be used as an example)). I know I can look to using Forest or some other similar library, but can somebody clue me in to the history of this, I thought we had that added for Ada 95. -- Visit the Ada 95 Booch Components Homepage: www.ocsystems.com/booch This is not your father's Ada -- lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada