Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] add pathname-expand

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] add pathname-expand
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 17:09:41 +0200

> On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 02:27:43PM +0200, Felix wrote:
>> This patch adds "pathname-expand", a procedure I found in Gambit's
>> library and which is quite useful. This does "~"-expansion and makes
>> relative pathnames absolute either by merging the current-directory or
>> a user-provided base directory.
> 
> I'm a little confused.  Isn't this something we already have under the
> name "ep", as per the recent discussion and CR 1001.  Are you
> proposing to use a different and longer name, for compatibility, or
> have it as an alias for ep, or is this somehow slightly different?

Nevermind.


cheers,
felix