[asdf-devel] Guard against (push "/foo/bar" asdf:*central-registry*)

Richard M Kreuter kreuter at progn.net
Thu Jul 9 17:59:08 UTC 2009


"Tobias C. Rittweiler" writes:
> 
> I think it's bitten pretty much all of us that we at least once tried to
> push a non-directory-designating filename to *CENTRAL-REGISTRY*.
> 
> It's a common pitfalls for newcomers.
> 
> Couldn't ASDF signal a warning when it encounters such a thing while
> grovelling through the registry?

Wouldn't it be more user-friendly to coerce such pathnames to ones that
denote directory names?

--
Richard




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