Fwd: Re: pathname-directory, Hyperspec violation

>
>So MAKE-PATHNAME must clearly accept a string as the argument
>for the :DIRECTORY keyword, but it is not.  And it also certainly
>should accept a list of one string and treat it as a string.

Oops.  I meant to say 'And it ALMOST certainly should accept a list of one 
string
and treat it as a string.'

It has to accept a list of strings according to the HS, but whether it 
should treat
that as a single string or in some other implementation dependent way is 
not clear
from the description.

>OTOH, your example has 'punctuation' in it so it could be
>considered erroneous, and all bets are off at that point.