<div dir="ltr"><span class="">On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Random832 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:random832@fastmail.com" target="_blank">random832@fastmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</span><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, at 17:39, Ethan Furman wrote:<br>
> On 03/29/2016 02:30 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:<br>
> > Paul Moore wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> P(wherever)/youwant/togo<br>
> ><br>
> > If P were a suitable seed object, this could be<br>
> ><br>
> > P/wherever/youwant/togo<br>
><br>
> An interesting idea, but how would you differentiate between relative<br>
> and absolute paths?<br>
<br>
</span>Path.ROOT/absolute/path<br>
Path.DOT/relative/path<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>How about:<br></div><div><br></div><div>Path/absolute/path<br></div><div>Path%relative/path [think: % as the Unix shell prompt]<br></div><div><br></div><div>I also like the idea of being able to do<br><br></div><div>Path/~homesubdir/path<br><br></div><div>as an alias for<br><br></div><div>Path/'~'/homesubdir/path<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">Apart from the above, the user would have to know to quote special path characters like ~ and . and trailing / to avoid a syntax error:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Path/'~'<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Path/'..'/relative/path<br>Path/absolute/path/'/' [in rare cases where the trailing slash is necessary]<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Nathan<br></div></font></span></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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