Forgetting the wish for new File accessing implementations for a moment, is there a reason why the current StandardFileStream >> oldFileNamed: (and oldFileFullyNamed) is implemented:

^(self isAFileNamed: fileName)

ifTrue: [self new open: fileName forWrite: true]

ifFalse: [(FileDoesNotExistException fileName: fileName) signal]

instead of :

^(self new open: fullName forWrite: true) ifNil:

["File does not exist..."

(FileDoesNotExistException fileName: fullName) signal] ?

Feels abit silly to open a file to see if it exists, then close it, then open it again before returning it... (It also causes an unneccessary rehash of StandardFileStream registry on success)

Cheers,

Henry