Re: Question about UIOP: Any reason GET-TEMPORARY-FILE couldn't be exported?

On 22 Aug 2016, at 22:47, Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.net wrote:

ACL offers a functionality like this with its make-temp-file-name and make temp file.

I'd love to have a portable version that would, for example, make temporary files that could be used as arguments in RUN-PROGRAM.

Is there any reason this could not be exported?

Dear Robert,

get-temporary-file is just an a very simple wrapper around with-temporary-file, which is already exported. What you can e.g. already do(*) is use

(with-temporary-file … (%run-program :output … :wait t))

or

(with-temporary-file (… :keep t) (%run-program :output … :wait nil))

That’s a pretty nice interface, I find (the implementation is another matter). Do you find it too verbose?

Elias