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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: 12351@debbugs.gnu.org, Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
Subject: bug#12351: 24.1; parse-colon-path turns empty paths into nil
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:56:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dg1ue6yajy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wqvy9aqw.fsf@cube.luannocracy.com> (Dave Abrahams's message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:11:19 -0500")

Dave Abrahams wrote:

> Every OS I know of treats empty elements in "colon paths" (semicolon
> paths on Windows) differently from elements that are "."

So why do you want to just unconditionally delete them from the result
of parse-colon-path? What should they be represented by, if not nil?

load-path, exec-path both are documented to accept nil for
default-directory. cd-path works the same way.





  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-31  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-04 18:58 bug#12351: 24.1; parse-colon-path turns empty paths into nil Dave Abrahams
2012-09-16 15:57 ` Chong Yidong
2012-12-30 18:52 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-30 19:53   ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-30 20:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-30 20:37       ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-30 22:08         ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-31  3:08           ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31  7:14             ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-31 12:59               ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 10:07             ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-31  1:40         ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-31  3:11           ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31  6:56             ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2012-12-31  7:07               ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-31 12:58                 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 16:10             ` Wolfgang Jenkner

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