From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-08-14T00:15:11+09:00
Subject: Re: File.basename, dirname and split changed in 1.8.0!

Hi,

In message "File.basename, dirname and split changed in 1.8.0!"
    on 03/08/14, Thomas <thomass@deltadata.dk> writes:

|Why did the behaviour of File.basename, File.dirname and File.split
|change in ruby 1.8.0?

To conform POSIX basename and dirname.  Blame POSIX.

							matz.