Chapter 15: Pathnames, Files, Directories
Edmund Weitz · Apress eBooks · 2016
Common Lisp uses so-called pathnames as a pretty elaborate way of dealing with files and directories. This is at least partly due to the diversity of file systems a Common Lisp implementation could encounter at the time the standard was conceived. While the result is, on the one hand, remarkably flexible, it might, on the other hand, seem pretty arcane and convoluted to someone who only ever had to deal with file systems on Windows or on Unix-like operating systems. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.