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Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:

> I think that the best form of DWIM is that if the suffix is "", then
> you simply skip the entire sprintf.  Then any suffix has to have the
> '.', but no suffix doesn't have it.  Additional DWIMMmery could
> remove an initial '.' from the suffix so that users expecting it to
> be there don't get ".." in their file.

I think it is generally accepted on this list that that kind of
DWIMmery is bad.