[armedbear-cvs] r14160 - trunk/abcl/doc/design/pathnames

[mevenson at common-lisp.net]

Author: mevenson
Date: Sun Sep 30 23:28:11 2012
New Revision: 14160

Log:
doc: MERGE-PATHNAMES issue fragments.

Modified:
   trunk/abcl/doc/design/pathnames/merging-defaults.markdown

Modified: trunk/abcl/doc/design/pathnames/merging-defaults.markdown
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--- trunk/abcl/doc/design/pathnames/merging-defaults.markdown	Sun Sep 30 10:15:05 2012	(r14159)
+++ trunk/abcl/doc/design/pathnames/merging-defaults.markdown	Sun Sep 30 23:28:11 2012	(r14160)
@@ -11,8 +11,23 @@
     
 will fail.  
 
+
+## Questions
+
+###  19.2.3 Merging Pathnames
+
+Except as explicitly specified otherwise, for functions that
+manipulate or inquire about files in the file system, the pathname
+argument to such a function is merged with *default-pathname-defaults*
+before accessing the file system (as if by merge-pathnames).
+
+Q: Does this mean that the arguments to PARSE-NAMESTRING should not be
+merged? 
+
 ## Other implementations
 
+What is the "default" host for #p"/"?
+
 ### SBCL
 
 A host nonce which appears in the reader as
@@ -33,12 +48,9 @@
 
 HOST is NIL.
 
-
-
-
 ### Colophon
 
 Mark <evenson at panix.com>
 Created:  01-SEP-2012
-Revised:  30-SEP-2012
+Revised:  01-OCT-2012