The feel of a LispM/List of running machines

[Martin Cracauer]

Alaric B. Williams writes:
> I'd be most interested to know how the LispM dealt with:
> 
>  - Storage. Files? Persistent objects? A directory structure?

The thing I immedeatly liked about genera is that you have more than a
"default directory" when referring to filenames.

In Unix, you set a "current directory" and incomplete pathnames are
relative to it.

In Genera, you have a machine, a path, a filename, an extension and a
version component as a file's name.

All these have the default like the former pathname used. So, when you
had "mash:>some>dir>foo.lisp" as a previous file, you could say "bar"
and it would make "mash:>some>dir>bar.lisp" (not "bar" without
".lisp"), you could say ">otherdir>" and it would make
"mash:>otherdir>bar.lisp".

Martin
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