Hi, Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis:
> On Fri 17 Feb 2012 23:49, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Would it work to let the user call it themself if needed, like: >> >> (add-to-load-path (dirname (canonicalize-path (current-filename)))) > > I would rather have current-filename do a > > (or (false-if-exception (canonicalize-path p)) p) > > Current-filename sounds like it should do the right thing, if possible. I think it’s often undesirable. Suppose you want to use ‘current-filename’ in an ‘assert’ macro, for instance: what you want is a hint, not an absolute path, since that path is likely to be invalid at the time you see it (for instance, it could point to the source tree on a build machine of your distro.) Furthermore, including absolute paths by default makes builds non-deterministic: two users would get different binaries, just because they built things under a different directory. Thus, I’d rather let users call ‘canonicalize-path’ when they know what they’re doing, and know that they actually need it. WDYT? Thanks, Ludo’.
