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Rationale for (file-name-as-directory "") => "/"?

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Subject: Rationale for (file-name-as-directory "") => "/"?
From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
Date: 14 Apr 1998 09:17:01 +0200
Subject says all.  I know Emacs behaves that way, but the XEmacs
developers are wondering just the same.

It seems "./" would be a more reasonable choice, no?  (I would
personally have it raise an error, but that's just me ...)

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

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