Re: inconsistent pathnames

Walter C. Pelissero wrote:
> Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) writes:
> 
>  > BTW, I've applied your patch.  It looks good, and actually fixes the 
>  > issue I raised about "..a".  It is now :name ".", :type "a".
I was mistaken.  I had other things mixed in.
> 
> This was actually my main concern, with my patch ".foo" and "..foo"
> are treated differently.  Which one is the right one is matter of
> philosophical debate.  On the other hand
> 
>   (pathname "..foo")
> 
> used to produced an invalid pathname.
> 

Agreed.

I'll check in your patch soon, and fix it so that "..a" doesn't have 
directory :relative and name = nil and type = "a".  It should be name 
"." and type "a".

Thanks,

Ray