[racket-dev] pr11012

I think it's best to fix the contract and docs so that #f is a valid
result when the argument has no directory part.

At Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:10:12 -0600, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> This bug report
> 
> http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=11012
> 
> is due to
> 
> path-only
> 
> returning #f when given a base-less path.
> 
> This breaks its contract, which should return path-for-some-system?
> and #f is not path-for-some-system?.
> 
> (BTW, there are no contracts in racket/path. I don't have a good grasp
> on where we're allowed to use racket/contract.)
> 
> path-only is hard-code to return #f when split-path returns a true
> dir? or if the base it returns is not path-for-some-system?. I'm not
> sure how this should be fixed, for the moment I'm going to declare the
> PR not a bug as it is because the paths do not refer to any real file.
> 
> Jay
> 
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