[asdf-devel] never ending component relative pathnames [2]

[james anderson]

good afternoon;

On 2010-03-10, at 14:47 , Robert Goldman wrote:

> On 3/10/10 Mar 10 -3:40 AM, james anderson wrote:
>>
>> On 2010-03-10, at 00:49 , Faré wrote:
>>
>>> Dear James,
>
>>> These are not currently portably valid:
>>> * module "./"
>>
>> => remove these entries.
>> elsewhere it is described that "." should work.
>
> Question of clarification:  is "elsewhere" somewhere in the manual?

no, i had meant, somewhere in the recent correspondence.
as i cannot now find it, i must have imagined it.
unless faré reiterates it, i will banish it from my thoughts.

> If
> so, and if it is the feeling of the ASDF community that these  
> should NOT
> work, please send me a pointer to the location, and I will excise it.
>
> As an aside, I'm not a big fan of having syntax that is read but that
> doesn't behave.
>
> Would it be possible to try to trap these cases and raise errors  
> for them?
>
> Thanks,
> r