Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] handle EOVERFLOW and ENOTDIR gracefully in file/directory-exists?

[Christian Kellermann]

* John Cowan <address@hidden> [111010 08:30]:
> Christian Kellermann scripsit:
> 
> > John, how do other schemes handle this situation?
> 
> Racket, Gauche, Gambit, Bigloo, Kawa, SISC, Chibi, Chez, SCM, Larceny,
> Ypsilon, Mosh, IronScheme, Scheme 9, Elk, VX return #f.
> 
> MIT, scsh, Ikarus throw an exception.
> 
> Scheme48, KSi, SigScheme, Scheme 7, UMB, Oaklisp don't provide
> file-exists?  or crash in some other way.

Thanks for your research! Are you doing this manually btw or have
you scripted it?

Kind regards,

Christian

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