Re: [Scheme-reports] Ballot item #113 "directory contents"

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Thomas Bushnell, BSG scripsit:

> What about systems which don't have files, or don't have hierarchical paths?
> 
> Is it really the job of the language to specify the topology of the
> filesystem?

I wrote PathnamesCowan, based on CL pathnames but also intended to provide for URIs.
This is a WG2 proposal, and I don't think anything but string pathnames (with an
escape for names which are not valid strings) are needed for WG1.

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