Comment 1 for bug 540263

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Nikodemus Siivola (nikodemus) wrote :

...and because of the way MERGE-PATHNAMES works physical pathnames parsing with :device :unspecific would be even worse:

;;; Consider Win32.
CL-USER> (pathname-device (merge-pathnames (make-pathname :device :unspecific)
                                           (make-pathname :device "C")))
:UNSPECIFIC

...no, not good.