Fwd: Re: pathname-directory, Hyperspec violation

"SmallHairyTroll <[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.corman
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- In [email protected], JP Massar <massar@a...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >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.
> 

Interestingly :directory and :name are assigned even though make-
pathname "fails" (when a string is used instead of a list). i.e.

(setf path (make-pathname 
        :device "H"
        :directory "\\test_directory"
        :name "test_file.txt"))

(pathname-directory path)
"\\test_directory"

(pathname-name path)
"test_file.txt"

(namestring path)
;;; An error occurred in function CONVERT-PATHNAME-TO-NAMESTRING:
;;; Error: Not a list: \test_directory


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