well put.

although I don't think a windows user is going to be confused by c:/foo/bar


On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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