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

To: friedman@splode.com
Subject: Re: Rationale for (file-name-as-directory "") => "/"?
From: Richard Stallman <rms@santafe.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:51:21 -0600
Cc: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de, scsh@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Reply-to: rms@gnu.org
    Unix file name semantics being what they are, and since
    file-name-as-directory interprets other arguments relative to the current
    working directory, I think "./" is probably the correct thing for it to do.

I agree, so I decided to change it.  Thanks.

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