Path as an object in std.path

[David Nadlinger]

On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 15:36:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I've succumbed to the temptation to do this several times over 
> the years.
>
> I always wind up backing it out and going back to strings.

As another data point (which may or may not be relevant for the 
discussion here), the LLVM system/support library was initially 
based on Path objects, but recently has been rewritten to use raw 
strings: 
http://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/namespacellvm_1_1sys_1_1path.html

David