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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:49:37 -0400
> 
> >> > Nothing, except that we can point them to the docs and say that they
> >> > live dangerously ;-)
> [...]
> > We are permissive.
> 
> The above two statement are not mutually consistent, IMO.

Why should they be?  "Hope for the best, plan for the worst."

> > We just want to be consistent in the stuff we generate.
> 
> I'm fine with this.  But I object to documenting too precisely the form
> that should be in load-path and then tell people that if they don't do
> that they live dangerously.

OK, I won't tell that.  (It was a joke, anyway.)