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From: shap@thebeach.wpd.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: On the standard behavior of "load"
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Date: 9 May 90 23:53:56 GMT
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What file-exists *doesn't* do is guarantee that a subsequent load will
succeed, because the file could get deleted.

The underlying issue here is that the scheme designers haven't yet
agreed on an error handling mechanism.  It would be unambiguously wrong
to specify one in the standard if it isn't right.

Jonathan Shapiro
Silicon Graphics, Inc.