Greetings! The spec is still a little ambiguous, but these lines indicate to me that GCL, clisp, and corman have it right (don't know why clisp throws an error, but in general I use clisp all the time to test ansi compliance issues.)
probe-file tests whether a file exists. probe-file returns false if there is no file named pathspec, and otherwise returns the truename of pathspec. A file here should be sopentheing that could be opened with (open...) -- we have no such ability currently for directories. Is this a problem to follow in mingw? Take care, "Mike Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Bill. > > | Can you imagine what recent change (last week?) might lead > | to this failure? Perhaps the change to probe-file or related > | routine? > > You are right; the probe-file change. > > (probe-file "./") returns nil on Windows with the latest changes. > > In daase.lisp.pamphlet the "./" is hard wired: > > (localdatabase nil > (list (list '|dir| (namestring (probe-file "./")) )) > 'make-database) > > > > Lispworks gives: > > CL-USER 1 > (probe-file "./") > #P"C:/Documents and Settings/miketh/" > > CL-USER 2 > (truename "./") > #P"C:/Documents and Settings/miketh/" > > > > Corman Lisp gives: > > (probe-file "./") > NIL > (truename "./") > #P"C:/Documents and Settings/miketh/" > > CLISP: > > [1]> (truename "./") > #P"C:\\Documents and Settings\\miketh\\Desktop\\" > [2]> (probe-file "./") > > *** - no file name given: #P"C:\\Documents and Settings\\miketh\\Desktop\\" > 1. Break [3]> :C 1 > > > Windows GCL currently follows Corman on this one and the Hyperspec says > this: > > http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/fun_probe-file.html > > > Common Lisp experts: > > 1. Which behaviour is correct on Windows? (I believe that "." and ".." are > actual entities on Unix, but not Windows. Convenience argues for following > LW rather than Corman.) > > 2. What is the system independent way to get the name of the current > directory in Common Lisp? > > > Cheers > > Mike Thomas. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gcl-devel mailing list > Gcl-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
