8 Apr
2015
8 Apr
'15
10:57 p.m.
"Robert P. Goldman" rpgoldman@sift.info writes:
Faré wrote:
Should non-lowercase strings be either forbidden or case-converted? That's a backward incompatible change that would need to be tested with cl-test-grid before it's committed — and even then might affect unpublished or proprietary code by other users.
I think there's a strong incentive to make such a backward-incompatible change right now:
It would break Quicklisp.
such systems are *already* broken in at least one sense -- they cannot be used correctly with logical pathnames,
Not true. A logical pathname can map to any physical pathname.
nor can they be referred to by symbols.
They are already referred to by symbols whenever someone does (asdf:load-system :foo).
Zach