From: matt@... (Matt Neuburg)
Date: 2012-09-14T02:20:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Pathname#to_str withdrawn in 1.9?

Avdi Grimm <groups@inbox.avdi.org> wrote:

> I'd hazard a guess that the reasoning is because the '+' behavior was
> confusing and potentially surprising. Pathname defines '+' as a filename
> join, so Pathname('/foo') + Pathname('bar') == Pathname('/foo/bar'). But
> '/foo' + Pathname('bar') == '/foobar'. This is surprising and bug-prone if
> you have code that mixes pathnames and strings.

Interesting point. The amazing thing is how fast I'd internalized this,
almost subconsciously. Indeed, I was doing all sorts of tricky things,
like saying

    /myregex/ =~ mypathname

(note the unusual order) in order to get the implicit coercion. We are
curious animals! Thx - m.

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