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29.0.50; Peculiar file-name-split edge case

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From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>, 57102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57102: 29.0.50; Peculiar file-name-split edge case
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:06:30 +0200

On Sat, 13 Aug 2022 at 13:44, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Could one instead prefix the list with a symbol (either `absolute' or
>> `relative') to distinguish the two cases.  Or do you think that would
>> just make it more complicated.
>
> I think that just makes it way more complicated to use.

If instead of a symbol `absolute' or `relative' the first element was
one of the strings "/" or ".", then it would probably be pretty handy to
use.  But then of course the logic would be that

  (file-equal-p (apply #'file-name-concat (file-name-split filename)) filename)

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