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Re:./watch by Y_Y on Saturday October 18, 2025 @08:51AM (#45626951)
Thanks, this is the first good reason I've seen! Seems crazy to me that the go tool does that, but maybe I just lack sufficient unix-nature.
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Re:./watch by zahlman on Saturday October 18, 2025 @09:38AM (#45627272)
This allows it to disambiguate between system path syntax and the language's syntax for symbolic names.

Similarly, package installers can use this to disambiguate between "install the local file with this exact name" and "look up a file on the index for the named package".

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