On 2/19/26 9:19 AM, Camm Maguire wrote:
Greetings, and thanks for the note!
Actually, I thought this was more of a feature rather than a bug.
Pathname namestrings of the form "...//..." are inherently ambiguous
(e.g. ...//.. means ..././... in Linux et.al., but means / in emacs) and
are almost always the result of a lazy concatenation of paths, typically
avoiding merge-pathnames which should always give the right answer:
(merge-pathnames "../bar/baz" "etc/foo/")
#P"etc/foo/../bar/baz"
That said I have a patch now testing which collapses // to /.
Thanks! I think it makes gcl more consistent with what other lisps do
with paths like this.
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