From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Apr  5 13:46:44 2006
Subject: Re: addpath, rmpath, savepath
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Keith Goodman" <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>
Cc: "Robert S. Weigel" <rweigel at gmu dot edu>, bug@octave.org
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:46:38 -0400

On  5-Apr-2006, Keith Goodman wrote:

| If you're going for compatibility then how about expanding tmp// to
| list out all of the directories under tmp?

I'd rather not have that behavior.

| If a new directory is
| created, such as tmp/new/, then it will not automatically be added to
| the path.

Yes, that would be a problem, and a reason to avoid expanding double
slashed directories.

jwe



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