[conspire] Java guy asks why to use a pathSeparator constant and not /

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

Fun StackOverflow answer:

"You use File.separator because someday your program might run on a platform developed in a far-off land, a land of strange things and stranger people, where horses cry and cows operate all the elevators. In this land, people have traditionally used the ":" character as a file separator, and so dutifully the JVM obeys their wishes."

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2417485/difference-between-file-separator-and-slash-in-paths

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