there is a folder empty -- returns true. Bug?

[Mark Waddingham]

Hi Tiemo,

On 2015-10-21 18:52, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Windows 7, since LC 6.7 (or 6.6.?):
> 
> there is a folder empty
> 
> returns true. Up to 6.5 it returned false, as expected for me. Is this 
> a bug
> (I didn't found a file in QC) or a wanted behavior? Anybody else seeing
> this?

Please do file a bug report - I don't think 'there is a folder empty' 
should return true (unless of course, there is actually a folder with no 
name in the current directory - assuming this is possible...).

I suspect this came about as a result of work we've done trying to 
uniformize the way paths are turned into absolute paths. 'empty' is 
probably resolving to a path representing the current working directory 
as 'empty' would be seen as a relative path and thus turn into 'the 
defaultFolder & empty' - which obviously does exist. (With hindsight 
this is an obvious thing to special-case, however it is possible we 
missed it at the time).

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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