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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/29/2015 06:42 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I'm not too enthusiastic about that, either, but unless I
> misunderstood, some people here would like to see trailing slashes
> there.

Yeah, but that's what this discussion has been about. Tightening reins 
in this direction would make sense (store and accept "directory names" 
only where the values are used as directories), but a lot of fundamental 
functions accept both forms, and making them more strict is very likely 
to result in major breakage in third-party code.

Tightening the reins, selectively, in the other way, is safer (because 
any function that accepts the without-slash value probably accepts the 
with-slash value as well), but it doesn't make as much sense. Even if 
some documentation, in certain places, has been worded like this for a 
while.