Re: Is this correct?
"Rainer Joswig (as joswig at lisp dot de)" <[email protected]>
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@Martin : how do I get the name of a file with the preserved case on macOS with a case preserving / case insensitive variant of HFS+, APFS, exFAT, ... ? I would have thought that this would be the business of TRUENAME -> the "canonical filename", whatever "canonical" means in ANSI CL. > Am 21.02.2026 um 18:32 schrieb Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com) <[email protected]>: > > On 20 Feb 2026, at 18:01, Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think it was Christopher Stacy who just said that the ANSI committee "punted" on pathnames. > > And I will repeat what I have said before: people who complain about the CL pathname system (or more generally about design decisions in any language) without coming up with a detailed proposed replacement design with at least one implementation are acting like fools. > > Especially as here where it's pretty clear that LW's truename implementation just ought to return, well, 'the canonical filename of the file in the filesystem' as the spec requires and it's really not doing that. > > --tim > > _______________________________________________ > Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users > [email protected] > http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html