Nice. I think this would be a good addition to the docs :)
You can also write $*PROGRAM.parent.parent.parent.parent.absolute; but if your relative path is too short, you might end up with a bunch of .. like this: /Users/gabor/work/perl6maven.com/../.. Gabor On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Lloyd Fournier <lloyd.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > After thinking about what Zoffix said, probably what you're meant to do is: > > $*PROGRAM.parent.absolute > > Which leaves the stringification (.absolute) until last. > > > On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 4:04 PM Lloyd Fournier <lloyd.fo...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> FYI: >> >> 15:57 < llfourn> Zoffix: is there any plan to make .dirname and .absolute >> on IO::Path return an IO::Path? >> 15:58 < llfourn> (rather than a Str) >> 15:58 < Zoffix> llfourn: no >> 15:58 < Zoffix> .absolute is one of the two ways to stringify an IO::Path >> (the second being .relative) >> 15:58 < Zoffix> And .dirname is part of .parts; all Str objects as well >> >> >> On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 3:54 PM Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> thanks. >>> >>> $*PROGRAM.dirname.IO.absolute; >>> >>> also works, but yours seem better. >>> >>> As a side note, dirname does not return and IO::Path object either. >>> >>> Gabor >>> >>> >>> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Lloyd Fournier <lloyd.fo...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > I'd use >>> > >>> > $*PROGRAM.absolute.IO.dirname >>> > >>> > I'm not sure why .absolute doesn't return an IO::Path object. Maybe >>> > that's >>> > being addressed as part of Zoffix++'s IO work. >>> > >>> > >>> > On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 10:07 PM Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> I came up with this: >>> >> >>> >> say $*PROGRAM-NAME.IO.absolute.IO.dirname; >>> >> >>> >> but I wonder if there is a simpler way to do it? >>> >> >>> >> regards >>> >> Gabor
