From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.190.198.17!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: error in lispworks' #'directory or in my head??? References: <3C281272.9F322230@alltel.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3218349950634232@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 10:05:51 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1009361151 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:05:51 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:05:51 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:23067 * Eric Moss | Python lets me check file-ness or directory-ness or link-ness. Is there | a portable way in lisp? Are fileness, directoryness, and linkness portable concepts? I would expect such things to be part of the operating system interface. Since Common Lisp is more portable than Python, and has a far longer history, the operating systems it has to be portable across are far more numerous. /// -- The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.