From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2013-01-04T15:38:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Literal notation for Pathnames

Hi,

2013/1/4 Intransition <transfire@gmail.com>
>
> One thing I would like Ruby to have is a concise literal notation for
> pathnames. So maybe Ruby could have a literal notation as follows:
>
>     /foo/bar    #=> #<Pathname:/foo/bar>
>     ./foo/bar   #=> #<Pathname:./foo/bar>
>     ../foo/bar  #=> #<Pathname:../foo/bar>
>
> and/or
>
>     /"foo/bar"    #=> #<Pathname:/foo/bar>
>     ./"foo/bar"   #=> #<Pathname:./foo/bar>
>     ../"foo/bar"  #=> #<Pathname:../foo/bar>
>
> So, `/`, `./` and `../` would be special keyword and/or unary operators
> for creating Pathname object.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
There was a very similar feature request 7 months ago.
Refer to https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6507.

Regards,
Park Heesob