Re: :mkdirp without path specifier

["R. Michael Weylandt" <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>]

On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> R. Michael Weylandt writes:
>>                     ;; Possibly create the parent directories for file.
>>                     (when (let ((m (funcall get-spec :mkdirp)))
>>                                (and m (not (string= m "no"))))
>> -                     (make-directory (file-name-directory file-name) 'parents))
>> +                     (if (file-name-directory file-name)
>> +                         (make-directory (file-name-directory file-name) 'parents)))
>
> If the else clause is intentionally missing, some folks prefer to use
> "when" instead of "if" to advertise that fact (see some surrounding code
> for example).  In this case the additional "if" should be rolled into
> the condition check of the former "when" anyway (and let-bind the result
> to avoid the duplicate "file-name-directory" call).  The conditional is
> actually superfluous since we can short-circuit from the "and".
>
> A patch to that effect has been installed in 063c8b03b7.
>

Thanks for the feedback and applying a fix.