[Openmcl-devel] Closing a stream with :abort

Osei Poku osei.poku at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 12:51:34 PST 2008


Hi,

What is the standard behavior when closing a file stream with :abort  
set to T?

Am I interpreting the hyperspec incorrectly when it states:

"If abort is true, an attempt is made to clean up any side effects of  
having created stream. If stream performs output to a file that was  
created when the stream was created, the file is deleted and any  
previously existing file is not superseded."

Clozure CL seems to leave the file completely intact.

Osei



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