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2011-09-11 07:50:50
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WG1 - Core
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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
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254
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alexshinn
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cowan
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Shall we make open-output-file overwrite existing files?
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2011-08-07 05:38:12
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Change at time 2011-09-11 07:50:50
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WG1 rejected this proposal, leaving the behavior unspecified.
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Change at time 2011-08-17 05:26:09
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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.
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