** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
+ ** various problems in the backquote readmacro
He also pointed out some bogus old entries in BUGS, and fixed
a number of bugs which came into existence in the pre7 branch
(internal to the CVS repository), so that they never showed
DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected.
+* minor incompatible change (part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes
+ to DIRECTORY behavior): DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes
+ NIL slots of its pathname argument to :WILD, and in particular
+ asking for the contents of a directory, which you used to be able
+ to do without explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/"),
+ now needs explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
* minor incompatible change: DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by
the old deprecated name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE
for the defined function, since declaiming return types involving