Peter Seibel  <peter@gigamonkeys.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Raymond Toy <raymond.toy@ericsson.com> writes:
| > Just a note that in CMUCL, pathnames (almost) never have a NIL host
| > component.  It's either a logical host or the special internal
| > unix-host.  Until recently there was no way to make any pathname
| > with a NIL host component, even with MAKE-PATHNAME because :HOST NIL
| > was treated as if no host were given so the default was used.  This
| > has been changed recently so that the host is really NIL.
| 
| So now what is the host component of the pathname returned by:
|   (parse-namestring "/foo/bar/baz.txt")
+---------------

    > (pathname-host (parse-namestring "/foo/bar/baz.txt"))

    ""
    > (describe *)

    "" is a vector of length 0.
    It has no fill pointer.
    Its element type is specialized to BASE-CHAR.
    > (eq ** nil)

    NIL
    > 


-Rob

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