Re: Silly argument for a unix DIRECTORY:

Barry Margolin <barmar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

In article <868xmx3w32.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ari Krupnik <ari@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I get this warning when I pass a string as :directory to make-pathname
in CMUCL: Silly argument for a unix DIRECTORY: "/home/ari/foo"

What makes this a silly argument?

Because it should be a list of strings: ("home" "ari" "foo").

Ah! I get it now. Thanks for the clarification. I guess the first
element in that list should be :absolute ?

Ari.

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