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Re: Don't concat directories to file names
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Don't concat directories to file names |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:16:29 +0900 |
Juanma Barranquero writes:
> I know, I'm even using `directory-file-name' in The Function Without A
> Name. But Emacs users and developers apparently don't, if they don't
> balk at the idea of a function *-file returning the path (cough, the
> filename, I mean) of a directory.
It's not globally consistent, of course.
As with many other concepts in Emacs there is a confusion between
objects, names for objects, and handles (references) to objects.
Consider fonts and coding systems. (XEmacs actually has font objects
and coding system objects, but I have yet to see a case where the
distinction between a symbol naming such an object and the actual
object is useful.)
Consider that Emacs doesn't have a notion of file handle. What serves
for a file handle in Emacs is a buffer visiting a file. Thus the
distinction between the verbs "find" and "locate", which serves the
same kind of purpose with complete different syntax.
I don't mean to argue that you're "wrong" (how could you be? this is
definitely a YMMV kinda thang :-). Nor does this directly address the
PATH-style path vs. URL-style path issue. This helps me to
rationalize it, that's all.
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, (continued)
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/22
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Andreas Schwab, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/22
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/20
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/06/20