[ clisp-Feature Requests-3474507 ] RENAME-FILE :if-does-not-exist does not work

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Feature Requests item #3474507, was opened at 2012-01-16 10:24
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>Category: None
>Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: David Brown (d3zd3z)
Assigned to: Bruno Haible (haible)
Summary: RENAME-FILE :if-does-not-exist does not work

Initial Comment:
GNU CLISP 2.49 (2010-07-07) (built on hepworth.siccegge.de [10.70.1.67])

Software: GNU C 4.6.1 
gcc -falign-functions=4 -W -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wpointer-arith -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-format-nonliteral -O -falign-functions=4 -DENABLE_UNICODE -DDYNAMIC_FFI -DDYNAMIC_MODULES -I.  /usr/lib/libreadline.so -lncurses -ldl /usr/lib/libavcall.so /usr/lib/libcallback.so  -L/usr/lib -lsigsegv libgnu_cl.a 
SAFETY=0 TYPECODES WIDE_HARD GENERATIONAL_GC SPVW_BLOCKS SPVW_MIXED TRIVIALMAP_MEMORY
libsigsegv 2.9
libreadline 5.2
libffcall 1.11
Features: 
(READLINE REGEXP SYSCALLS I18N LOOP COMPILER CLOS MOP CLISP ANSI-CL COMMON-LISP LISP=CL INTERPRETER SOCKETS GENERIC-STREAMS LOGICAL-PATHNAMES SCREEN FFI GETTEXT
 UNICODE BASE-CHAR=CHARACTER WORD-SIZE=64 PC386 UNIX)
C Modules: (clisp i18n syscalls regexp readline)
Installation directory: /usr/lib/clisp-2.49/
User language: ENGLISH
Machine: X86_64 (X86_64) a64.davidb.org [76.88.79.245]
(debian testing build)

[1]> (with-open-file (stream "first.txt" :direction :output :if-does-not-exist :create))
NIL
[2]> (with-open-file (stream "second.txt" :direction :output :if-does-not-exist :create))
NIL
[3]> (rename-file "first.txt" "second.txt" :if-exists :overwrite)

*** - EVAL/APPLY: Too many arguments (4 instead of at most 2) given to RENAME-FILE
The following restarts are available:
ABORT          :R1      Abort main loop

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>Comment By: Sam Steingold (sds)
Date: 2012-01-16 11:37

Message:
ANSI CL standard specifies only 2 arguments to RENAME-FILE
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_rn_fil.htm
I agree that this might be a useful extension to the standard.
http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC

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