std.path.getName(): Screwy by design?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Daniel Gibson" <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>
> The "." at the start is Unix convention to say "this is a hidden 
> file/folder", this means "ls" (the unix equivalent to "dir") doesn't list 
> them (ls -a does, though) and most file browsers only list them when you 
> select something like "show hidden files" or "show dot files".
>

I know. I was just wondering how the semantics of "name" and "extension" 
applied to them.