Peter Seibel <pe
...@javamonkey.com> writes:
> My reading of the dictionary entry for DIRECTORY, which says:
> Determines which, if any, files that are present in the file system
> have names matching pathspec, and returns a fresh list of pathnames
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> corresponding to the truenames of those files.
> would lead me to expect that if:
> (pathname-match-p file wild) ==> T
> and file isn't itself wild, that:
> (member file (directory wild) :test #'equalp)
> would also be true. However that doesn't seem to uniformly be the case
> on several implementations in certain situations.
> Am I at least right in my interpretation of the spec? I.e. is there
> supposed to be this correspondence between PATHNAME-MATCH-P and
> DIRECTORY?
So, I kept reading and found this in the PATHNAME-MATCH-P directory Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp