On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:44:08 -0400, Faré <[email protected]> wrote:
> Samium,
> 
> you're the one who seemingly introduced this with-open-file in
> 2ca05589. Why do we need such a fancy and not-that-portable way of
> testing the file is there?

PROBE-FILE fails to catch dead symlinks, and I need a meaningful
condition from which I can deduce /what/ is being failed upon,
whereas the subtype of FILE-ERROR used by, for example, SBCL,
doesn't give me this information.


regards,
  Samium Gromoff
--
"Actually I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I
did not have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay (OOPSLA 1997 Keynote)

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