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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Subject: Re: doco ports verbiage
Date: 14 Jun 2003 02:32:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k7bp5wj3.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u1at7cgk.fsf@zip.com.au>

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> writes:
> >
> > What does Guile do when FILENAME already exists?  We should document
> > that.
> 
> I guess on a unix-like system it truncates the file and leaves you
> ready to put new contents.

Yeah, when FILENAME is a regular file.  What about saying that on
POSIX systems, you get the behavior of

    open (FILENAME, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0666)

which is what the code eventually does.  Or we could stay in Scheme
and say it is equivalent to

    (open-file FILENAME "w")

and make sure that open-file is documented properly.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-14  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-12  0:56 doco ports verbiage Kevin Ryde
2003-06-12 14:02 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-06-14  0:02   ` Kevin Ryde
2003-06-14  0:32     ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2003-06-15  0:32       ` Kevin Ryde
2003-06-18 23:39         ` Marius Vollmer

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