In article <f93a6bcc0607070018l42ea93a1u10a57c6ad4cb3a76 / mail.gmail.com>,
  "Martin DeMello" <martindemello / gmail.com> writes:

> Even better would be for [] to split on "/" itself for literal paths:
>
> path = Pathname['/usr/local/src']
> path = Pathname['/usr']/foo/bar

I added Pathname() few weeks ago.

% ./ruby -rpathname -ve 'p Pathname("foo/bar")'
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-07-07) [i686-linux]
#<Pathname:foo/bar>
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Tanaka Akira