Re: [Axiom-developer] pathname-name behavior change

[Stephen Wilson]

Tim,

>From my electronic copy of CLtl 2nd edition:

X3J13 voted in March 1988 (PATHNAME-SYMBOL)   to change the language
so that a symbol is never allowed as a pathname argument. More
specifically, the following functions are changed to disallow a symbol
as a pathname argument:

pathname          pathname-device     namestring 
truename          pathname-directory  file-namestring 
parse-namestring  pathname-name       directory-namestring 
merge-pathnames   pathname-type       host-namestring 
pathname-host     pathname-version    enough-namestring


Sincerely,
Steve

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:50:22PM -0500, root wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> CLtL Ref Manual ISBN 0-932376-41-X p413
> 
> "Any argument called pathname in this manual may actually be a
> pathname, a string or symbol, or a stream."
> 
> has this changed?
> 
> t