Pathname

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Hm, I suppose I could do that. :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Logan Capaldo [mailto:logancapaldo@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:17 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Pathname

On May 30, 2006, at 12:55 AM, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Daniel Berger wrote:
>> transfire@gmail.com wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>> More importantly, I think it would be nice if there were a
>>> shorter way
>>> to define a path, perhaps a percent literal like %p{a/b}.
>> Good idea. I'm stealing it for pathname2. :slight_smile:
>
> Well, I would have stolen it, except that I forgot that there's no
> way to define % literals in Ruby 1.8 afaik. I'm not sure about 1.9.
>
> Related RCR: RCR 279: User defined % literals
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
>

Well, is this close enough?

module Kernel
   def pn(s)
     Pathname.new(s)
   end
end

pn %{a/b}

It almost looks like a % literal.