[armedbear-devel] ANSI-compatible namestrings

[Mark Evenson]

The PATHNAME serialization and ANSI-compatible namestrings issues should 
be solved as of [svn r12810][1].

1.  A PATHNAME with no namestring now has a non-printable representation 
(i.e. "#<PATHNAME (no namestring) …").

2.  The old, non-ANSI compatible #P(:host "host" :device nil …) output 
has been removed.

3.  A PATHNAME namestring only contains '/' characters as directory 
separators.  Any '\' passed in are converted.

4.  UNC pathnames can be constructed via '\\server\mount\path' but have 
a non-printable namestring representations.

Hopefully this puts these issues to rest.  Any other outstanding 
problems related to this issues should be reported as bugs.

[1]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/12810

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