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> The following deprecated methods are removed: Dir.exists? File.exists?

These names were really elegant, I wonder why they were removed. Searching the web, the only explanation I can find is they were removed because they were deprecated. So why were they deprecated?

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For better or worse, the convention in Ruby is to name methods in a second-person style [0], as if addressing the object directly: “file, do you `#exist?`”; “string, do you `#start_with?` foo?”. So, for consistency, `Dir.exist?` and `File.exist?` have been preferred for a long time.

[0] https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9041#note-1

That's true for File objects responding to an :exist? message. For the File class, I think exists? makes more sense.

Anyway, no big deal. Happy to see Ruby getting nicer and nicer every update.

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