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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/26/2015 08:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > What's the benefit of this pickiness?
>
> Which one?

I'd say both: especially when they're inconsistent.

> > Unless there's a real performance advantage (which I fail to see), I'd
> > rather go the other way and be more permissive and fix default-directory
> > so it also works correctly when it doesn't have a trailing slash.
>
> We are permissive.  We just want to be consistent in the stuff we
> generate.

load-path is a user-level variable. Changing package.el behavior is 
fine, but if we document load-path to only have "directory name" 
elements, some code might decide to rely on it.

Not sure if it's plausible to write code that would work on elements 
without trailing slash but wouldn't work without, but if it is, that's a 
more in the wrong direction, IMHO.