Re: [Sbcl-devel] Toggling brackets-as-a-wildcard-character behavior?

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

On 4 February 2013 18:07, CRLF0710 <crl...@gm...> wrote:
>
> 2013/2/4 Christophe Rhodes <cs...@ca...>
>>
>> with a bracket in it, you can escape the wildness using backslashes:
>>   (wild-pathname-p #p"\\[") ; => nil
>
>
> However, this is not possible under Windows platform, since the
> character #\\ is used as the separator for directories for Windows path
> name.
> For example, we say #P"C:\\test.txt".

See:

  MAKE-PATHNAME, SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING, and SB-EXT:NATIVE-PATHNAME.

Not that I dispute the fact that having escape character and supported
pathname separator leads to epic levels of lossage.

(I would actually be inclined to accept as a directory separator \
only in native Windows namestrings, but I suppose that getting
(pathname "C:\\foo\\bar") wrong would be at least moderately painful
for Windows users... so another solution seems called for.)

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus