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- To: bug-lisp at MIT-MC
- From: Dick Gabriel <RPG at SU-AI>
- Date: Sat, 9 Dec 78 22:46:00 GMT
- Original-date: 9 Dec 1978 1446-PST
09-Dec-78 1026 JONL at MIT-MC (Jon L White)
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 78 18:27:00 GMT
Original-Date: 9 DEC 1978 1327-EST
From: JONL at MIT-MC (Jon L White)
To: (BUG LISP) at MIT-MC
Why doesn't the LISP system do the DELETEF necessary before
doing a RENAMEF on the DEC10 implementations? I.e., if
a file FOO.BAR already exists, then it is necessary to delete it
before (RENAMEF '(FOO.NEW) '(FOO.BAR)) will win.
It is problematic whether semantically a RENAMEF should
imply a DELETEF, or whether it should simply reflect UUO semantics,
whatever they are on your favorite DEC10-like machine.
-rpg-