Re: A portable DIRECTORY-P. Re: Here we go again. More CMUCL/ACL pathname differences.

Subject: Re: A portable DIRECTORY-P. Re: Here we go again. More CMUCL/ACL pathname differences.
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/01/12
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3125173018981162@naggum.no>

* cbarry@2xtreme.net (Christopher R. Barry)
| USER(8): (defun logical-pathname-p (pathname)
| 	   (typep pathname 'logical-pathname))
| LOGICAL-PATHNAME-P
| USER(9): (logical-pathname-p "sys:hosts.cl")
| NIL

  why do you expect a string to be a pathname?

  do you expect (null "()") to return true, too?

#:Erik