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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:28:42 +0200
> 
> On 10/26/2015 03:19 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> > Added "Use `directory-file-name' when adding items to this path."
> 
> Do you expect any code on Emacs to rely on this? Will it make a difference?

IMO, code shouldn't rely on that.

The modified documentation advises to use expand-file-name, in which
case both forms will work.

> What's going to happen to existing user configurations which use the 
> "other" name (with trailing slash)?

Nothing, except that we can point them to the docs and say that they
live dangerously ;-)