[Openmcl-devel] Re: [Bug-openmcl] pathname-type

[Alan Ruttenberg]

Ok. Record source file needs to pay attention to this:

(edit-definition-p 'swank::find-function-locations-dwim)
((FUNCTION . "home:.swank.lisp"))
SWANK:FIND-FUNCTION-LOCATIONS-DWIM
T
NIL
NIL

> From: Gary Byers <gb at clozure.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:09:17 -0700 (MST)
> To: Alan Ruttenberg <alanralanr at comcast.net>
> Cc: bug-openmcl at clozure.com, Alan Ruttenberg <ruttenbe at mpi.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bug-openmcl] pathname-type
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
> 
>> (pathname-type "home:.swank.lisp")
>> "swank"
>> 
>> (pathname-type "/Users/ruttenbe/.swank.lisp")
>> "lisp"
>> 
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> 
> The frightening thought is that this might not be a bug:
> 
> ".X.Y"
> 
> TYPE and VERSION are both preceded by a dot in a logical-pathname
> namestring (see CLHS 19.3.1)), and it's probably a good thing that
> physical pathname parsing doesn't think that versions even exist
> (though I suppose that some people'd like to see an Emacs-y convention
> followed.)
> 
> If we want the first dot to be taken literally, it has to be escaped:
> 
> "home:\\.swank.lisp"
> 
> This isn't strictly necessary in the physical namestring case, but
> doesn't hurt (any unescaped dots other than the last one in the
> physical namestring get treated as normal characters.)
> 
> "/Users/ruttenbe/\\.swank.lisp" and "/Users/ruttenbe/.swank.lisp"
> 
> should both parse into the same thing.
> 
> 
> 
> 




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