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    > This is definitely not the way directory-abbrev-alist
    > was intended to be used.

    So what? Regardless of the original intention, what's important is how it
    actually behaves.

If you want to know what it will do if you set variables to values
that are not intended to be used, you can read the code.

I made it clearer in the doc string what cases are supposed to be
used.