Re: [Maxima-discuss] problem with wild characters [was Re: write raw text to file]

[Elias M. <lo...@gm...>]

On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 07:50, Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...> wrote:

> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 5:30 PM Eli Damon <pu...@el...> wrote:
>
> This behavior is stated in the Common Lisp spec. A conforming
> implementation is allowed to have its own way to handle the wildcard
> stuff, so you could try to accommodate that, but I recommend against
> it.
>

 A very appropriate discussion was posted on Reddit recently:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Common_Lisp/comments/nsqrcb/wildcardless_alternative_to_clpathname/

Maxima should probably also use uiop to provide consistent behaviour across
Lisp implementations.

Regards,
Elias