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.
