Ticket #254 (closed defect: wontfix)

Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 8 months ago

Shall we make open-output-file overwrite existing files?

Reported by: cowan Owned by: alexshinn
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: WG1 - Core Keywords:
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Description

As there'll most probably be file-specs in the big language, we could go ahead and just specify a behavior for "open-output-file" on already-existing files (proposal: overwrite). Other behaviors could then be specified with what can be found in the large report. --Denis Washington

Change History

comment:1 Changed 9 months ago by cowan

Racket, Chez, Ikarus, Ypsilon, Mosh, Scheme 9 complain if the file exists.

Gauche, MIT, Gambit, Chicken, Bigloo, Scheme48/scsh, Guile, Kawa, SISC, Chibi, SCM, Larceny, IronScheme?, SigScheme? overwrite the file.

comment:2 Changed 8 months ago by cowan

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to wontfix

WG1 rejected this proposal, leaving the behavior unspecified.

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