Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
So in light of the POSIX philosophy, the current Stdio.exist behaviour is perfectly fine, and using an extra flag to make it aware of symlinks would be the proper way to go.
Incidentally, the reason why I'd like to stick to POSIX is because Pike looks like C, and therefore you'd expect (a bit) to have a similar file interface as C (which offers POSIX usually).