I’ve cced him, hopefully he can state exactly why.

> On Jul 13, 2016, at 4:02 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Anmol Sethi <an...@aubble.com> wrote:
>> Why does filepath.Clean replace each slash with a separator at the end of 
>> the function? What’s the point of attempting to clean it if the separator 
>> used is incorrect? Wouldn’t doing this at the start of the function make 
>> more sense?
> 
> It dates back to https://golang.org/cl/4758051 in 2011.  I would guess
> that Alex thought it would be simpler to just do it at the end rather
> than reworking the rest of the function.
> 
> Ian
> 
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