"Robert Goldman" <rpgold...@sift.info> writes: > I checked and pathname-directory-pathname is redundant, because of the > guarantees provided by ensure-directory-pathname, but when I look at > get-pathname-defaults, I am pretty sure it cannot be removed in the > same way. > > After get-pathname-defaults any relative pathnames will be resolved by > pathname merging, and we should be guaranteed to have an absolute > pathname. > > AFAICT, ensure-directory-pathname can return a relative pathname. > > To be honest, I don't know if an absolute pathname is required, but I >would have to understand a lot more of uiop to be sure it was safe to >relax that constraint, so I left it. I'm willing to be convinced if you >have more energy than I do.
Indeed, it does seem to be quite a mess. I'll let it alone. > Best, > R > > P.S. please send diffs with some more context if you can -- I find the >following diff flags helpful: --ignore-space-change -u -F '\''^(def'\'' Thank you for those diff flags, I will use them in future lisp diffs. -- Spenser Truex https://spensertruex.com/ San Francisco, USA
