From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-08-14T03:49:15+09:00
Subject: Re: File.basename, dirname and split changed in 1.8.0!

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.

To summarize the examples, a trailing "/" is ignored. Is that the only 
difference?