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PATHNAME-SYMBOL
- To: navajo!cl-cleanup%sail@navajo.stanford.edu
- Subject: PATHNAME-SYMBOL
- From: edsel!kent-state!eb@navajo.stanford.edu (Eric Benson)
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 87 14:27:11 PDT
If a symbol can be coerced into a string, and a string can be coerced
into a pathname, I see no reason why a symbol should not be coerced
into a pathname. It has limited usefulness, but I believe that
coercions should be transitive. I believe that the aesthetics of the
language will be harmed by disallowing symbols as pathnames.
I'm not going to put up a fight to stop this change, but I would like
to see the minority view stated in the proposal.