Hi,
The following behaviour is not ideal.
,---- | Armed Bear Common Lisp 1.1.0-dev-svn-14131M | Java 1.7.0_03 Oracle Corporation | OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM | Low-level initialization completed in 0.3 seconds. | Startup completed in 1.456 seconds. | Loading /home/emarsden/.abclrc completed in 0.66 seconds. | Type ":help" for a list of available commands. | CL-USER(1): (make-pathname :device (list "foo")) | java.lang.ClassCastException: org.armedbear.lisp.SimpleString cannot be cast to org.armedbear.lisp.Pathname | at org.armedbear.lisp.Pathname.getNamestring(Pathname.java:657) | at org.armedbear.lisp.Pathname.printObject(Pathname.java:909) | at org.armedbear.lisp.Primitives$pf__output_object.execute(Primitives.java:907) | at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.execute(Symbol.java:813) | at org.armedbear.lisp.LispThread.execute(LispThread.java:653) | at org.armedbear.lisp.print_8.execute(print.lisp:127) | at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.execute(Symbol.java:813) | at org.armedbear.lisp.LispThread.execute(LispThread.java:653) | at org.armedbear.lisp.print_14.execute(print.lisp:281) | at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.execute(Symbol.java:813) | at org.armedbear.lisp.LispThread.execute(LispThread.java:653) `----