Feature request: Path append operators for strings

[Artur Skawina]

On 07/02/13 22:47, TommiT wrote:
>  Division operator for strings doesn't make any sense, and I doubt there will ever be some other meaning for '/' that would make more sense than "a directory separator" for strings in the context of programming.

Umm,

> $ /usr/bin/pike
> Pike v7.8 release 537 running Hilfe v3.5 (Incremental Pike Frontend)
> > "/a/b//c" / "/";
> (1) Result: ({ /* 5 elements */
>                 "",
>                 "a",
>                 "b",
>                 "",
>                 "c"
>             })

That's the only sane use of the division operator on string types;
anything else would be extremely confusing.

And this still does not mean that it would be a good idea in D.
Typing out "splitter()" is not /that/ hard. 

artur