File.separator is intended only for rendering paths to the user. A windows 
user is going to be very confused by C:/foo/bar.

It serves absolutely no purpose anywhere else, and I consider it a bug that 
this concept is not properly documented in the appopriate java doc.


Feel free to mark down any erroneous use of File.separator as a cleanliness 
bug*.


*) this kind of bug doesn't cause the program to fail, it just needlessly 
uglies up your code, hurting flexibility and maintainability.

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