Re: Don't concat directories to file names

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm not going to enter an OS flamewar, but in my younger days I hacked
> VAX/VMS, where a filename and a directory were clearly distinct :)

Emacs follows this idea as well.  I.e. a directory is a file, and it has two
names: one to treat it as a filem and another to treat it as a directory.
So /usr is a directory whose file name is "/usr" and directory name is
"/usr/", see file-name-as-directory and directory-file-name.

Unider Unix, the trailing slash often makes no difference, so people tend to
forget about the distinction, but occasionally the difference is significant.


        Stefan