colons in pathnames - SBCL vs CCL

Luís Oliveira loliveira at common-lisp.net
Tue Jan 7 00:34:53 UTC 2014


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:11 AM, John Morrison
<jm at symbolic-simulation.com> wrote:
> ? (merge-pathnames "foo:bar" #P"" :newest)
>> Error: "foo" is not a defined logical host

One could use make-pathname instead:

(make-pathname :name "foo:bar" :type nil)
=> #P"foo:bar"

How does this issue relate to osicat? Do you have a test case?

Cheers,

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Luís Oliveira
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