Feature request: Path append operators for strings

[TommiT]

On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 19:56:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 21:46:26 TommiT wrote:
>> How would you feel about adding the '/' binary operator and the
>> '/=' assignment operator for strings, wstrings and dstrings? 
>> The
>> operators would behave the same way as they do with
>> boost::filesystem::path objects:
>> 
>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/libs/filesystem/doc/reference.html#path
>> -appends
>> 
>> In short (and omitting some details) code such as:
>> 
>> string s = "C:\\Users" / "John";
>> 
>> ...would be the same as:
>> 
>> string s = "C:\\Users" ~ std.path.dirSeparator ~ "John";
>
> That's what std.path.buildPath is for.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Oh, I hadn't noticed that function. I don't know about its 
behaviour of dropping path components situated before a rooted 
path component. Throwing an Exception would seem like a better 
behaviour in that situation.