Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     That's because all these primitives call expand-file-name internally,
>     and expand-file-name returns the buffer's default directory when
>     passed an empty string as an argument.
> 
>     I don't know off the top of my head why does expand-file-name do that.
> 
> Do you have something better to suggest?

No.  I'd bet some feature already uses that.