[Sbcl-devel] pathname pain

[Daniel B. <da...@te...>]

OK, it's competition time.  Find any passage in the ANSI standard that
justifies (or even allows for) the present behaviour of loading `foo.lisp'
when the user evaluates `(load "foo")'

I can't.

Why is it the supposedly simple fixes which always end up in an
afternoon cursing the HyperSpec?  The bug I set out to fix is that in 
0.6.12.21, PROBE-FILE and LOAD don't work on relative pathnames:

* (setf *default-pathname-defaults* #p"/home/dan/src/stargreen/istr/")
#P"/home/dan/src/stargreen/istr/"

* (probe-file "front-page.lisp")
NIL

* (probe-file (merge-pathnames "front-page.lisp"))
#P"/home/dan/src/stargreen/istr/front-page.lisp"

* (probe-file #p"front-page.lisp")
NIL

* (probe-file (merge-pathnames #p"front-page.lisp"))
#P"/home/dan/src/stargreen/istr/front-page.lisp"



-dan

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