Re: The Logical Pathname (Song)

"Bradford Miller (as bradford dot w dot miller at gmail dot com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You know, the least you could do when you’ve created a thread that has caused me an earworm for two days now (it’s been decades since I even thought about “Breakfast in America”) is post CL or LW appropriate lyrics to go with it!

There are times when my lisp world’s asleep
The questions run too deep
For such as simple trial
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
Please tell me where’s my file

> On Mar 11, 2026, at 2:54 PM, Marco Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at unimib dot it) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have the following
> 
> CL-USER 225 >  (setf (logical-pathname-translations "LP")
>                     '(("**;*.*.*" "~/Projects/Foo/Bar/**/")))
> (("**;*.*.*" "~/Projects/Foo/Bar/**/"))
> 
> Then
> 
> CL-USER 256 > (merge-pathnames "ASD.F" "LP:FOO;QWE;")
> #P"LP:ASD.F.NEWEST"
> 
> Which is ... different from what other CL's do.
> 
> Any hermeneutics about this in LW?
> 
> Cheers
> MA
> 
> 
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