Re: directory-files called with empty string

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>>>> is it the normal behavior of directory-files to use default-directory
>>>>> when it is called with empty string or is it a bug?
>>>> That is the normal behviour of every file related function.  It is
>>>> basically what expand-file-name defines.
>>> Indeed, although I don't think it's documented, and code had probably
>>> better not rely on it.
>> Ok i see, thank you Stefan and Andreas, maybe that should be documented, for
>> all file related functions.
>
> I prefer to keep features which are accidental undocumented, unless we
> really consider them as good features (even if we bumped into them by
> accident), in which case they can be documented and their use can
> be blessed.
Yes i understand, but it is not a good feature IMHO.
These kind of functions should return an error with empty string, as
empty string is not a valid path.
But maybe this "feature" is used somewhere?

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