Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/26/2015 08:58 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> We don't advise to rely on that.

AFAICS, Stephen's patch documents the value in detail ("directory file 
name", "Use `directory-file-name' when adding items to this path"). 
That's something a programmer might choose to rely on.

> We also recommend using
> expand-file-name, which should tolerate both.

It's not for all use cases.

> If someone wants to fix default-directory to not use the trailing
> slash, I don't object.  I just hope we won't have to discuss all the
> other variables that hold directory names.

But default-directory is relevant: I actually had to use load-path 
elements as default-directory values.

> All in all, I feel that this bikeshedding episode should end.

I said my part.