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2 points by Pauan 4646 days ago | link | parent

To put it simply, I think Arc should use Racket's support for temporary files:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Filesystem.html?q=temp...



1 point by akkartik 4646 days ago | link

Ok, done: http://github.com/nex3/arc/commit/df9fd21eeb

Thanks for the tip! I had no idea there could be a better way. Now I find that my use of $RANDOM in shell scripts should be replaced with calls to mktemp as well.

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