Re: Strange `file-name-sans-extension' behavior

[Stefan Monnier]

>     Could we introduce a new function for that or some way to tell
>     `expand-file-name' not to do the expansion if the dir is relative ?
> 
> In principle this is ok, but why is concat not correct?
> In this very limited situation, it ought to be correct as
> far as I can tell.

Is it correct for VMS ?
Maybe in practice it works for all systems we care about, but in theory
string concatenation has nothing to do intrinsically with generating
a filename by combining a relative directory name and a relative filename.


        Stefan