Symbols as part of Pathname path construction

[bitherder]

I'd like to be able to do the following:

  Pathname.root /:usr/:local/:bin 

    => #<Pathname:/usr/local/bin>

The most obvious way for me to do this would be to alias Symbol#to_str to Symbol#to_s (in 1.8) and/or Symbol#to_path to Symbol#to_s (1.9).

I'd be happy to contribute this extension to Facets.

What do you think of my (straw-man) proposal?

Any suggestions for a better implementation approach?

Thanks

[Gavin Sinclair]

On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:29:17 PM UTC+11, bitherder wrote:

I'd like to be able to do the following:

  Pathname.root /:usr/:local/:bin 

    => #<Pathname:/usr/local/bin>

I think it looks poor compared to the normal

   Pathname.root "/usr/local/bin"

(Not that I know what "root" does, but that's just me...)

I can see some (minor) potential benefit in your proposal where dynamic pathname construction is concerned, but not enough benefit to justify this feature.

Just my opinion,
Gavin