From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 57102@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57102: 29.0.50; Peculiar file-name-split edge case
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:29:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgg98lyc.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lertlafe.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:59:49 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> How sensible is this in the first place? Shouldn't it rather be
>> something like
>>
>> (file-equal-p (apply #'file-name-concat (file-name-split filename)) filename)
>>
>> [ which is currently likewise not given ]
>>
>> Or to put it differently, who does the preceding empty string benefit if
>> we ignore the condition mentioned in the docstring? Are there any
>> real-world use-cases?
>
> You need to be able to tell (file-name-split "a/b") => ("a" "b") and
> (file-name-split "/a/b") => ("" "a" "b") apart.
Could one instead prefix the list with a symbol (either `absolute' or
`relative') to distinguish the two cases. Or do you think that would
just make it more complicated.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-12 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-10 8:24 bug#57102: 29.0.50; Peculiar file-name-split edge case Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-12 15:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-12 15:56 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-12 15:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-12 16:29 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2022-08-13 11:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-13 13:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-15 5:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-15 11:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-15 15:57 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-15 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-17 10:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-13 18:06 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-08-14 6:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-13 17:08 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-09-25 12:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-26 10:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-26 11:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-26 11:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-26 12:07 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-09-26 12:27 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-29 3:02 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-29 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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