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Issue: PATHNAME-SUBDIRECTORY-LIST (version 6)
- To: sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu
- Subject: Issue: PATHNAME-SUBDIRECTORY-LIST (version 6)
- From: Guy Steele <gls@Think.COM>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 89 16:03:57 EDT
- Cc: Moon@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com, CL-Cleanup@sail.stanford.edu, sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu, gray@dsg.csc.ti.com
- In-reply-to: Sandra J Loosemore's message of Thu, 25 May 89 13:51:59 MDT <8905251952.AA09203@defun.utah.edu>
From: sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu (Sandra J Loosemore)
Date: Thu, 25 May 89 13:51:59 MDT
The comments I made on issue PATHNAME-COMPONENT-VALUE also apply here.
In particular, I'm not personally motivated to add such a feature
because I've never had any need to manipulate hierarchical directories
from within a Common Lisp program. Any program that does so is
necessarily nonportable.
I'm sorry, but I disagree with your last sentence. A program that
*insists* on using hierarchical directories may be nonportable,
but a program that is *prepared* to deal with them if the local
file system happens to contain them is not necessarily nonportable,
and indeed may me more portable than a program thast insists on
dealing with directories in a nonhierarchical manner.
--Guy