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> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:27:46 +0800
> From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
> 
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > On my system (OS X 10.8.4):
> >
> >   ELISP> (getenv "HOME")
> >   "/Users/xfq"
> >   ELISP> (expand-file-name "$HOME/foo")
> >   "/Users/xfq/emacs-repo/bzr/trunk/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/$HOME/foo"
> >
> > I'm confused here.  Why don't the result of two evaluations be the same?

Could be a symlink or something similar?