[Python-Dev] The path module PEP

[Michael Hoffman]

[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 at ebi.ac.uk>
European Bioinformatics Institute