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Issue: PATHNAME-WILD (Version 2)
- To: KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM, CL-Cleanup@SAIL.Stanford.EDU
- Subject: Issue: PATHNAME-WILD (Version 2)
- From: Richard Mlynarik <MLY@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 88 22:07 EDT
- In-reply-to: <881006214951.3.KMP@BOBOLINK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
- Reply-to: Mly-lisp@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU
The CL pathname model does not provide a way to represent such wildcards,
which means, for example, that (MAKE-PATHNAME :NAME "F*O") cannot be
recognized by portable code as containing a wildcard.
This is not even `portable' code for creating a wildcarded pathname.
How do you distinguish between pathname named "f*o" and a wildcarded
pathname which starts with an #\f and ends with an #\o?? (BTW, the
Symbolics pathname system ducks the entire issue.)
The pathname specification is so crippled that adding dinky frobs like
PATHNAME-WILD-P isn't going to make any difference to `portability' --
about all it will add is another page to the CL manual.