This solves the problem of distinguishing between an empty path and one that acts as a placeholder.
This change does change some existing behavior: path("foo/..") used to get converted to an empty path. Now it gets converted to a path of ".", and thus the change will break any existing code which depended on the prior behavior.
--Beman
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