Three hours ago, John Cowan wrote:
> Arthur A. Gleckler scripsit:
>
> > Would you be willing to write a little bit about how this proposal
> > compares to what different Scheme implementations already provide?
>
> AFAIK, only Kawa and MIT provide pathnames as a built-in, though
> there may be external packages that provide them on other systems.
> MIT is essentially CL in semantics, whereas Kawa is mostly about
> URIs.

Racket had a separate `path' type for a long time now.  (Though it's
nowhere near the CL headache, and has no relation to uris.)

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