bug#57102: 29.0.50; Peculiar file-name-split edge case

[Philip Kaludercic]

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, 13 Aug 2022 at 13:44, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> Could one instead prefix the list with a symbol (either `absolute' or
>>> `relative') to distinguish the two cases.  Or do you think that would
>>> just make it more complicated.
>>
>> I think that just makes it way more complicated to use.
>
> If instead of a symbol `absolute' or `relative' the first element was
> one of the strings "/" or ".", then it would probably be pretty handy to
> use.  But then of course the logic would be that
>
>   (file-equal-p (apply #'file-name-concat (file-name-split filename)) 
> filename)

"/" or "." sounds a lot better than using symbols (at least on POSIX
systems).