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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:47:14 -0400
> 
> > Nothing, except that we can point them to the docs and say that they
> > live dangerously ;-)
> 
> So you live dangerously if you forget the trailing slash in
> default-directory, but you live dangerously if you do add it in
> load-path?

If you wish.

> What's the benefit of this pickiness?

Which one?

> 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.