Re: Trouble using (current-filename)

[Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>]

What about having two bits of syntax, current-filename and
current-file-path? Or better yet, current-filename and
current-file-directory, with the guarantee that (string-append
(current-file-directory) path-separator (current-filename)) points to
the file when it was compiled?

It is more intuitive to me that (current-filename) would return only
the file name, with no other path components, and that I would use
some other form to get those.

Noah

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sun 19 Feb 2012 22:02, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>> See Neil's use case here:
>>>
>>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/13440/focus=13621
>>>
>>> Can we do something that makes sense for both cases?
>>
>> Well, (add-to-load-path (dirname (canonicalize-path (current-filename)))) ?
>>
>> Yes it’s verbose, but it’s predictable and clearly specified.
>
> It's terribly verbose, IMO.  If we can do something better for those
> users, we should.  What did you think of my other suggestion about
> searching for the file in the load path, and only canonicalizing if it
> was not found in the load path?  (If it is found in the load path, then
> it would be returned in its relative form.)
>
> Andy
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