From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-04-30T09:06:57+09:00
Subject: Re: File.expand_path(__FILE__)

Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> No bug.
> 
> 
> At the last line "File.expand_path(__FILE__)" is being invoked.
> Currend dir = "/Users/ryan/tmp/"
> File name = "tmp/demo-problem.rb"
> 
> When these are being concatenated it outputs
> absolut path = "/Users/ryan/tmp/tmp/demo-problem.rb"
> 
> 
> concat is working ok.

expand_path doesn't simply concatenate. If it did, we could
simply do  dir + name.

Taking a valid relative pathname and returning an invalid
absolute pathname is not useful, certainly not a feature.

If not a bug, at least an anomaly.


Hal