[asdf-devel] summary proposal for COMMON_LISP_PATH and system search changes

[james anderson]

On 2009-09-29, at 17:20 , Robert Goldman wrote:

> james anderson wrote:
>> On 2009-09-29, at 16:09 , Robert Goldman wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Possible happy compromise:  allow a convention like
>>>
>>> /path/to/recursive/directory//:/another/path
>>>
>>> to specify when you want recursion in the variable?
>>>
>>> That works for the shell variable, which is a string; not sure  
>>> how to
>>> mark the corresponding CL pathname object.
>>
>> how about "**". as in,
>>
>>   /path/to/recursive/directory/**/:/another/path/
>>
>
> WFM.  Is there any chance that this choice would cause awkwardness  
> with
> the shell's parsing?

there is always
   /path/to/recursive/directory/:wild-inferiors/:/another-path

which evil is less?