On Sunday, May 9, 2004, at 17:41 America/New_York, Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
> > Sam Steingold writes: > >> Both LWW and CLISP return #P"foo-*" - why did CMUCL decide to quote >> the *? > > Oops, to answer the question, so it can read it back in. Pathname > syntax is implementation-specific. #p"foo-*" would be a pattern on > CMUCL, #p"foo-\\*" would be the pathname object you constructed. > > Yep. One for the "Modernizing Lisp" thread. PARSE-NAMESTRING behavior should be fixed once and for all on each "major" File System around. Cheers Marco -- Marco Antoniotti http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu NYU Courant Bioinformatics Group tel. +1 - 212 - 998 3488 715 Broadway 10th FL fax. +1 - 212 - 998 3484 New York, NY, 10003, U.S.A.
