Re: [External] : Re: Emacs Modular Configuration: the preferable way.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:51:38 +0200
> From:  Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> Drew Adams wrote:
> 
> > It's common for those new to Elisp to look for, find, and
> > use string-manipulation functions to manipulate file names
> > and their components. Unfortunately (but understandably).
> 
> Why are filenames strings then?

They aren't.  We represent file names as strings, but they aren't
_just_ strings.  In a way analogous to characters, which are not
_just_ integers.