> * 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 *?

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