[bug #62150] [afmtodit] should not write full file names to "name" directive of font descriptions

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #62150 (project groff):

[comment #2 comment #2:]
> I have conflicting goals.

As some internet wag once said, "I don't have a solution, but I admire the
problem."

(And anyway, this part of the patch is off the topic of this ticket.)

> I prefer semantic to misleading variable names.  ;-)

Won't argue against that precept...but "$font" seems a fairly solid variable
name to hold a font name.

> Perl is not the level of programming where we need to emulate
> a register allocator.

True, but I was thinking more of the human reader.  I read that, and I think,
"oh, he's preserving the old value so he can use it again later."  However, I
cannot vouch that my interpretation is universal, or even common.

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