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Strings are terrible representations for file paths. You end up having to do way more work to process them when you're passing it around. Extracting extensions, basenames, crawling up the directory chain etc.
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I created a similar path library in Reason: One added benefit is that it statically types whether or not a path is relative or absolute. Let’s you make APIs that accept rel, abs, or that will accept either. https://github.com/facebookexperimental/reason-native/blob/master/src/path/README.md …
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Here’s a Fs (file system) library written in terms of those Paths. Some Fs APIs demand absolute paths but others accept path.t(‘any). Many path operations like “/“ will “preserve” the absoluteness in the resulting paths.https://github.com/facebookexperimental/reason-native/blob/master/src/fs/Fs.rei …
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