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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:01:38 -0400
> 
> >> No, it was not inconsistent.  "directory name" is used all over the
> >> place to mean "with or without trailing slash, it doesn't matter", so
> >> the original doc-string was fine.
> > That doc string was confusing because it used the terminology
> > differently from the manual.
> 
> Can you (re)explain it, then?  Looks like I didn't understand
> the problem.

The manual says "directory name" ends in a slash, and talks about
"file name of a directory" which doesn't.  The doc string used
"directory name" while the strings in load-path didn't end in a slash.