I was put off by the statement in the allegro
common lisp documentation that
"Now that logical pathnames are available in Lisp,
search lists may be obsolete ...."
http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/5.0.1/doc/cl/loading.htm
But there is a section in Allegro CL documentation on
search lists which presumably is similar to the CMU
material.
Raymond Toy wrote:
>>>>>>"Richard" == Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
>>>>>>
>
> Richard> there is an ANSI common lisp pathname search mechanism already.
> Richard> Can that be used?
>
> None that I'm aware of. CMUCL has the concept of search-lists which
> look somewhat like ANSI logical pathnames. Associated with each host
> is a list of pathnames and files are searched in order. Basically,
> like the shell PATH variable.
>
> Could, perhaps, borrow this from CMUCL, depending on how tightly
> coupled it is with the rest of the pathname stuff.
>
> But maxima has it's own file search mechanism, which is probably
> adequate.
>
> Ray
>