On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, at 17:39, Ethan Furman wrote:

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On 03/29/2016 02:30 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

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Paul Moore wrote:

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P(wherever)/youwant/togo

If P were a suitable seed object, this could be

P/wherever/youwant/togo

An interesting idea, but how would you differentiate between relative and absolute paths?

Path.ROOT/absolute/path Path.DOT/relative/path

How about: Path/absolute/path Path%relative/path [think: % as the Unix shell prompt] I also like the idea of being able to do Path/~homesubdir/path as an alias for Path/'~'/homesubdir/path Apart from the above, the user would have to know to quote special path characters like ~ and . and trailing / to avoid a syntax error: Path/'~' Path/'..'/relative/path Path/absolute/path/'/' [in rare cases where the trailing slash is necessary] Nathan