Re: expand-file-name in fileio.c twice?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     In the case of expand-file-name, IIRC it's the old version of the code, 
>     it's there since v20.1 or something ("cvs annotate" should tell).  I 
>     replied to the ``almost every other code we have'' part in your message.
> 
> This is there in case the code is of interest for fixing a bug.
> I left it there because the function was totally rewritten,
> and very complex and likely to have bugs.  If we delete it from
> the current sources, it will still be in CVS, but we might be
> likely to forget it is there.

In that case, I suggest to add this explanation to the comments, so that 
we don't need to remember the reason ;-)