On 2017-06-03 16:12, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
From the manual page on std.path.buildPath:writeln(buildPath("foo", "bar", "baz")); // "foo/bar/baz" writeln(buildPath("/foo/", "bar/baz")); // "/foo/bar/baz" writeln(buildPath("/foo", "/bar")); // "/bar" I have no idea what drugs the person who chose that last one to be correct semantics was on at the time, but it was some seriously bad stuff. "If any of the path segments are absolute (as defined by isAbsolute), the preceding segments will be dropped." I cannot find any excuse for this to be even remotely reasonable.
Unfortunately it's been like this since forever. I mean, I checked the git history, it's been like this for as long as we have history, including when it was called "join".
-- /Jacob Carlborg
