> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 09:16:35 -0600 (MDT) > From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <be...@math.utah.edu> > Cc: be...@math.utah.edu > > >> 6. If the suffix operand is present, is not identical to the > >> characters remaining in string, and is identical to a suffix of the > >> characters remaining in string, the suffix suffix shall be removed > >> from string. Otherwise, string is not modified by this step. It > >> shall not be considered an error if suffix is not found in string. > >> ... > > The phrase `is not identical to the characters remaining in string' > means that ".bar" is the result, rather than "".
Any idea why does this exception make sense? > Also, in guile documentation, would it not be better to replace "file > name", "base name", FILENAME, and BASENAME with the standard POSIX > terminology "pathname" and "filename"? GNU Coding Standards frown upon using "path" for anything that is not a PATH-style directory list. In GNU terminology, "filename" can be both full (a.k.a. "absolute") and relative file names.
