Re: Maining of the :case keyword in make-pathname and pathname-name

From: Christophe Rhodes (csr21_at_cam.ac.uk)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 18:33:24 GMT

Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com> writes:

> So at least one current Common Lisp implementation (Allegro 6.2)
> considers Unix to have *no* customary case. That is the :case argument
> to pathname functions is ignored and

FWIW, I have a lot of sympathy with this view... as with many aspects
of Unix filesystem semantics, the Common Lisp pathname system really
doesn't map well in terms of case conversion (the most obvious other
example being the notion of pathname-type).

Christophe 

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