i'm using allegro common lisp on unix and have come across a rather
strange situation. allegro is trying to tell me that (readtable-case) is
undefined. further, it doesn't acknowledge the :case keyword in
(pathanme) or (make-pathname)... this is a problem, as i'm trying to
load files, the names of which were themselves read in from a file. as
such, the filenames are all in uppercase; as such, unix won't recognize
them as filenames... is allegro deficient?
rob
>>>>> On 8 Feb 1996, "Robert G. Malkin" <·····@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
"GM> i'm using allegro common lisp on unix and have come across a rather
"GM> strange situation. allegro is trying to tell me that (readtable-case)
"GM> is undefined. further, it doesn't acknowledge the :case keyword in
"GM> (pathanme) or (make-pathname)... this is a problem, as i'm trying to
"GM> load files, the names of which were themselves read in from a file. as
"GM> such, the filenames are all in uppercase; as such, unix won't
"GM> recognize them as filenames... is allegro deficient? rob
I can't answer your questions, but in general, if you have specific issues
such as this, you would do better to mail your questions to ····@franz.com.
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Mike Hucka ·····@umich.edu http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/hucka
University of Michigan AI Lab & EECS Departmental Computing Organization
Readtable-case and the :case argument to pathname functions were not
present in Common Lisp when allegro was developed. I do not know if they
have been added in the very latest versions.
I'm working on a (very large) re-implementation of pathnames which
supports case properly, and in so doing, reimplements most of the reader
(to support readtable-case). Would anyone be interested in this?