On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:50 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> > wrote: > >> $PathAndName.IO.open(:w).close unless $PathAndName.IO.f; > > > This has a readability issue, though: you've buried the lede. Well, to me it seems the opposite: That condition does not exactly "entice the reader to read the full story". At least not this reader. The most significant/interesting info, in this reader's opinion, is not the test of existence (and non-directoriness), but the creation of the file. Different folks. :) Eirik, whose fingers first somehow autocompleted "test of time" while trying to write "test of existence" …
