[slime-devel] Re: Good and bad things about SLIME

[Friedrich Dominicus]

Luke Gorrie <luke at bluetail.com> writes:

>
> But surely the pathname of a directory can be extended to refer to a
> file in a portable way. Anyone know the right way? (Hi Christophe!
> :-)
The right way would be using logical-pathnames, but the problem is at
least here the . in .swank-somewhat so not using a dot would help.

I'm not sure if that really is a bug or a missing specification. 
On LispWorks I can do a:
(translate-logical-pathname "clb:.test")

but on CMUCL this is broken
Parse error in namestring: Expecting a file name, got #\..
  clb:.test
      ^
   [Condition of type COMMON-LISP::NAMESTRING-PARSE-ERROR]

Restarts:
  0: [ABORT] Return to Slime toplevel.
  1: [ABORT] Return to Top-Level.

Backtrace:
0: (COMMON-LISP::EXPECTING "a file name" ((#\. . 4) ("TEST" . 5)))
1: (COMMON-LISP::PARSE-DIRECTORY ((#\. . 4) ("TEST" . 5)))
2: (COMMON-LISP::PARSE-LOGICAL-NAMESTRING "clb:.test" 0 9)
3: (COMMON-LISP::%PARSE-NAMESTRING "clb:.test" NIL #p"" 0 ...)
4: (COMMON-LISP::%PARSE-NAMESTRING 6 "clb:.test" NIL #p"" ...)[:EXTERNAL]
5: (PATHNAME "clb:.test")

I guess I will ask in c.l.l and see what they say about that.

Regards
Friedrich