<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Aug 7, 2016, at 1:59 PM, Félix Cloutier <<a href="mailto:felixcca@yahoo.ca" class="">felixcca@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br class=""></blockquote><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">One line above the text that you quoted, you can read:</span><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><blockquote type="cite" class="">If this method returns false, the object pointer referenced by error is populated with additional information.</blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>That’s only in the documentation for the original NSURL method (which still returns an error by reference). This is the entirety of the description in the documentation for the new one on URL:</div><div><br class=""></div><div>"This method synchronously checks if the resource’s backing store is reachable. Checking reachability is appropriate when making decisions that do not require other immediate operations on the resource, e.g. periodic maintenance of UI state that depends on the existence of a specific document. When performing operations such as opening a file or copying resource properties, it is more efficient to simply try the operation and handle failures. This method is currently applicable only to URLs for file system resources. For other URL types, false is returned.”</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The rationale is probably that this method was awkward to begin with. It's unclear to me why it was decided to return a `NSError` by reference and a bool that is seemingly equivalent to `error != nil`.</span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s not like that anymore. On the new URL value type, it both returns a bool *and* is marked ‘throws’. So you have to check *both* whether it returned false *and* whether it threw an error.</div><br class=""><div class="">Charles</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>