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Re: [Axiom-developer] pathname-name behavior change
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Stephen Wilson |
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Re: [Axiom-developer] pathname-name behavior change |
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Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:17:29 -0500 |
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Tim,
Here is a working link to the relevent page in CLtL:
http://www.supelec.fr/docs/cltl/clm/node214.html
And in the Hyperspec, the definition of a pathname designator:
http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/26_glo_p.htm#pathname_designator
Steve
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:06:46PM -0500, Stephen Wilson wrote:
>
> Tim,
>
> >From my electronic copy of CLtl 2nd edition:
>
> X3J13 voted in March 1988 (PATHNAME-SYMBOL) to change the language
> so that a symbol is never allowed as a pathname argument. More
> specifically, the following functions are changed to disallow a symbol
> as a pathname argument:
>
> pathname pathname-device namestring
> truename pathname-directory file-namestring
> parse-namestring pathname-name directory-namestring
> merge-pathnames pathname-type host-namestring
> pathname-host pathname-version enough-namestring
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Steve
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:50:22PM -0500, root wrote:
> > Steve,
> >
> > CLtL Ref Manual ISBN 0-932376-41-X p413
> >
> > "Any argument called pathname in this manual may actually be a
> > pathname, a string or symbol, or a stream."
> >
> > has this changed?
> >
> > t
>
>
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