Re: The Logical Pathname (Song)

Love it. <3

On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 1:21 PM Bradford Miller <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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