> '~' is a shell convention. Our file access functions should > not prevent accessing file or directiory named '~'. > Nor should they require some strange quoting (which is > the case with shell).
That's an odd choice. I think '~' is part of POSIX standard? Yes, in IO part, lisp and unix don't get along very well, but for convenience, we should choose '~' for abbrevation of home directory. > In Cygwin (clisp) there's no problem. So it's also inconsistent. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to fricas-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.