[asdf-devel] never ending component relative pathnames [2]

[Faré]

>> 3- for aesthetic reasons, I find that it's nicer if I don't have to
>> mysteriously do "bar/baz" but "bar/baz-V1.200.lisp". I feel that the
>> rule ".lisp is always added to the filename" is simpler and easier for
>> newcomers to understand than the rule ".lisp is added to the filename
>> iff there isn't a dot in the name already".
>
> checking my comprehension: this paragraph describes the way a string
> value for :pathname is handled.
> this does not happen if the argument is a pathname.
> ?
>
Indeed, when the argument is a pathname, all that happens to it is to
be MERGE-PATHNAMES*'ed to the parent pathname.

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