Sam Steingold writes:
 > 
 > why doesn't (make-pathname :name "foo-*") return a wild pathname?
 > it returns #p"foo-\\*" which is not wild.
 > how do I avoid this quoting?

Within ANSI CL, you can't.  The standard doesn't include any way to do
Unix-style wildcarding.  You can use CMUCL's namestring parser,
though, which is implementation-specific.

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