Re: doco ports verbiage

[Marius Vollmer]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> 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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