Subject: Re: error in lispworks' #'directory or in my head???
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 10:05:51 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3218349950634232@naggum.net>

* Eric Moss <ericmoss@alltel.net>
| Python lets me check file-ness or directory-ness or link-ness.  Is there
| a portable way in lisp?

  Are fileness, directoryness, and linkness portable concepts?

  I would expect such things to be part of the operating system interface.
  Since Common Lisp is more portable than Python, and has a far longer
  history, the operating systems it has to be portable across are far more
  numerous.

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