Greetings! Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Camm -- > > I believe GCL-2.6.8pre is missing the ANSI Lisp function > > ensure-directories-exist > among many others, but is in 2.7.0. Do you need a backport? It is simple. > > As a subsidiary question, how do you delete a directory in ANSI Lisp? I see no such function in the standard, but am cc'ing Paul Dietz. I therefore would suggest (system (format nil "rm -rf ~s" x)) Just to repeat, 2.7.0 is moving to the following usage of 'directory akin to clisp unless someone objects: ============================================================================= COMPILER>>(directory "/tmp") NIL COMPILER>>(directory "/tmp/") (#P"/tmp/") COMPILER>>(directory "/tmp/*") (#P"/tmp/#gazonk_27762_21.c#" #P"/tmp/#ii#" #P"/tmp/#q.h#") ============================================================================= This is what 2.6 has: ============================================================================= >(directory "/tmp") (#p"/tmp") >(directory "/tmp/") (#p"/tmp/#gazonk_27762_21.c#" #p"/tmp/#ii#" #p"/tmp/#q.h#") >(directory "/tmp/*") (#p"/tmp/#gazonk_27762_21.c#" #p"/tmp/#ii#" #p"/tmp/#q.h#") > ============================================================================= -- 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