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| name
&rest subdirectories | [Function] |
Purpose
Return the pathname based on a root directory, a
relative directory, or a module.
Package :module-manager
Module :module-manager
Arguments and values
| name | A keyword symbol naming a root directory, a relative directory, or a module. | |
| subdirectories | One or more strings specifying, in order, subdirectories
to be appended to the root directory, relative directory, or
module directory. (The keyword :up or :back can
also be supplied in addition to any of these strings, indicating to go upward
one semantic or syntactic level of directory structure, respectively.)
| |
| pathname | A pathname |
Returns
The pathname.
Errors
A relative directory
specification contains a circularity.
Description
Root and relative-directory definitions are
searched first. If no name directory definition is found,
module definitions are searched. Root directories specify a
fixed anchor directory for a tree of relative directory definitions.
The pathname returned for relative directories is based on the source pathname.
See also
define-relative-directory
define-root-directory
get-root-directory
show-defined-directories
Examples
Return the pathname of the :my-app-root
> (get-directory :my-app-root) #P"~/my-app/" >Return the pathname of the
:gbbopen-tools> (get-directory :gbbopen-tools) #P"<install-dir>/source/tools/" >Return this same pathname, this time computed from the
:gbbopen-root> (get-directory :gbbopen-root "tools") #P"<install-dir>/source/tools/" >Return the pathname of the
:gbbopen-user> (get-directory :gbbopen-user) #P"<install-dir>/source/gbbopen/" >
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