Arthur A. Gleckler scripsit: > > AFAIK, only Kawa and MIT provide pathnames as a built-in, though there > > may be external packages that provide them on other systems. > > MIT is essentially CL in semantics, whereas Kawa is mostly about URIs. > > I wonder whether they're ready for standardization, then. On the > other hand, I certainly do like having the ability to manipulate > pathnames as something more than strings.
WG2 voted pathnames in, so a proposal was needed, and this is mine. > Perhaps, but one rarely uses them in the same context. It seems much > less confusing to keep them separate. Giving them both the same underlying representation means that programs accepting URIs can also accept file names, which is usually a Good Thing. -- All Norstrilians knew that humor was John Cowan "pleasurable corrigible malfunction". [email protected] --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrilia _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
