Re: what's the correct behavior of directory-namestring

Michał "phoe" Herda via Sbcl-help <[email protected]> Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:29:03 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.steel-bank.general
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W dniu 2025-07-31 14:14, Richard M Kreuter via Sbcl-help napisał(a):

> Correct in that Windows and Unix are different, but do you think it's
> ideal for DIRECTORY-NAMESTRING to leave off the device for a Windows
> pathname?

It is also correct because this is what DIRECTORY-NAMESTRING is defined 
to do - see 
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/CommonLISP/HyperSpec/Body/fun_namestrin_h-namestring.html. 
Returning the device in addition to the directory would violate the 
language specification.

As for "ideal", what is the actual intent here? Get the whole 
namestring? #'NAMESTRING will do fine in that case.

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