On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 2:14 AM, Anton Vodonosov avodonosov@yandex.ru wrote:
I mean is it impossible to keep existing forever (implemented in terms of the new, better API)?
Some functions have a horrible API that is error-prone or misdefined and should NOT be used by anyone when better APIs are available. RUN-SHELL-COMMAND is a case in point — that horrible function must die, it's a security nightmare as well as a usability absurdity.
SYSTEM-DEFINITION-PATHNAME was historically doing the wrong thing; we provide an approximation of what it used to do in terms of supported interfaces, but the only way to be sure that the user doesn't mean something crazy in terms of the old meaning is to migrate to the new interfaces.
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