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The original design decision was to behave like a shell, where ~ means your own home dir and ~fred means fred's home dir. With the benefit of experience, this
by cmacleod4 2y ago
The original design decision was to behave like a shell, where ~ means your own home dir and ~fred means fred's home dir. With the benefit of experience, this is now seen to be unwise and a different decision has been made.
- eviks 2y agoSo they copied the mistake from some shell (you don't need much experience to realize it's unwise not to use a separator to separate)