> because they came about as a way to handle several different types of file paths
They also came as a way to handle file paths at all. Generally Lisp prefers other data representations over string representations. The user input (text string) will be parsed into some kind of data.
They also came as a way to handle file paths at all. Generally Lisp prefers other data representations over string representations. The user input (text string) will be parsed into some kind of data.