Jan. 25, 2006
11:36 a.m.
[Ian Bickling]
I'm personally +1 on /. I think people who think it is confusing are giving a knee-jerk reaction. It's very easy to tell the difference between file-related code and math-related code, and / is currently only used for math. In contrast, + is used for concatenation and addition, and these are far more ambiguous from context -- but still it doesn't cause that many problems.
I was initially -0 on / but I have found it quite useful and a lot simpler than a lot of joinpath()s over time. So +1 on / for me. -- Michael Hoffman <hoffman@ebi.ac.uk> European Bioinformatics Institute