[asdf-devel] pathname test

[james anderson]

good morning

On 2010-03-16, at 11:20 , Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
> [ ... ]
>    (make-pathname :name "foo.tar" :type "gz")
>    (make-pathname :name "foo" :type "tar.gz")
>
> are wrought with difficulty.
>
> For Common Lisp these are two non-equal pathnames, so the namestrings
> --if they exist-- should be non-equal.
>
> SBCL takes the stance that the first one has the namestring
> "foo.tar.gz", and that the second one has no namestring -- another
> implementation could take the opposite stance, though I freely submit
> that IMO disallowing dots in types is less problematic than
> disallowing them in names.
>

my experience was that sbcl takes the stance that neither one has a  
namestring.
i endeavored to formulate the tests such that they do not depend on  
the existence of such namestrings.

> The issue with (make-pathname :name "foo.bar" :type nil) is identical.
>
> Cheers,
>
>  -- Nikodemus

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