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		glandium 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pitfalls of Safe Rust It's the same in at least Python, so it's not a Rust idiosyncratic behavior. The "absolutize" method you're asking for exists since 1.79. https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/path/fn.absolute.html

Sharlin 9 months ago [–]

Yeah, but I meant a method that would take a custom prefix, like join does now. (In the hypothetical situation where join had different semantics.)

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