Re: [clisp-list] Re: poll: DELETE-FILE return value

[Pascal J.B. <pj...@in...>]

> > >     Sam> In ANSI CL, DELETE-FILE is specified to return T on
> > >          success. CLISP returns the truename of the deleted file.
> > 
> > There are two constraints here.  Return T satisfies
> > them both. Returning the truename satisfies only the second
> > one.

Perhaps changing  the result  to T  would be a  good think  since that
would force non conformant programs to become more conformant...

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