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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only direct
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names |
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Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:21:39 +0900 |
Stefan Monnier writes:
> > I see nothing wrong with recommending best practices in doc strings.
>
> I don't see why "foo/bar" is better than "/foo/bar/", really. So it's
> not a question of best practice.
Actually, usually it's the other way around (unless you think it's a
good idea to make an effort to break risky code):
(find-file (concat "/foo/bar/" "baz"))
and
(find-file (concat "/foo/bar/" "/" "baz"))
both have the same semantics (at the file system level) as
(find-file (expand-file-name "baz" "/foo/bar"))
while
(find-file (concat "/foo/bar" "baz"))
and
(find-file (concat "/foo/bar" "/" "baz"))
are always different from each other, and only the latter is
equivalent to the recommended use of expand-file-name. That's
XEmacs's rationale for ensuring that our additions to load-path (and
other foo-path variables) are slash-terminated.
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, (continued)
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/10/26
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/10/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stephen Leake, 2015/10/26
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/10/26
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/27