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A replacement for Ruby's File.join (See related posts)

File.join is ugly, there I've said it. So how about being able to replace this:

require File.join(LOAD_PATH, 'foobar')


With this:

require LOAD_PATH/:foobar


Trivial, really:

class String
  def /(o)
    File.join(self, o.to_s)
  end
end
to ruby string syntax by ciconia on Sun Aug 20 08:27:36 -0400 2006

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nicwilliams posts on Aug 20, 2006 at 10:10
That's brilliant! I love changing the language :)

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