> * Thomas F. Burdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-09 14:23:22 -0700]: > > 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.
Both LWW and CLISP return #P"foo-*" - why did CMUCL decide to quote the *? -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k <http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/> <http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.honestreporting.com> If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
