"Jared" == Jared C Davis <jared.c.davis@gmail.com> writes:
Jared> Hi, Jared> Should I be able to expect the following to behave consistently across Lisps? Jared> (file-namestring (uiop:parse-native-namestring ".")) Jared> I find that: Jared> - CCL and SBCL produce "." Jared> - Allegro produces NIL Jared> - CMUCL signals an error in LISP::UNPARSE-UNIX-FILE Jared> If I just look at: Jared> (uiop:parse-native-namestring ".") Jared> I get: Jared> Allegro: #P"./" Jared> CCL: #P"." Jared> SBCL: #P"." Jared> CMUCL: #P(:NAME "." :TYPE :UNSPECIFIC) I wonder why uiop:parse-native-namestring does that on cmucl. (cl:parse-namestring ".") returns #p"./", which, I think, makes sense. Without examining the actual slots, it's hard to tell what #p"." really is. -- Ray