parse-namestring

(parse-namestring thing &optional host defaults)

Parses a namestring into a pathname, returning it and the position parsing stopped at as a second value. Lite: a rontolisp namestring has no host component to parse against, so the whole string is the namestring, the second value is its length, and host/defaults are accepted and ignored. A pathname argument answers itself.

(multiple-value-list (parse-namestring "d/a.txt")) is (#P"d/a.txt" 7).

Backend support

All four backends -- one definition in rontolisp source, spliced into the program when it is referenced.