Re: [Axiom-developer] pathname-name behavior change

[Stephen Wilson]

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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