On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 15:36:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I've succumbed to the temptation to do this several times over the years.I always wind up backing it out and going back to strings.
As another data point (which may or may not be relevant for the discussion here), the LLVM system/support library was initially based on Path objects, but recently has been rewritten to use raw strings: http://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/namespacellvm_1_1sys_1_1path.html
David
