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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >> > 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."

In the context you wrote it "we are permissive" implies we don't frown
on either form.

>> > 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.)

But even if we don't say it explicitly, the change in docstring hints at
the fact that this detail matters, whereas it really shouldn't.


        Stefan