# Designing a Paths Julep

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/designing-a-paths-julep/124335>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** proposal, filesystem, path, rfc\
**Created:** [January 1, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/designing-a-paths-julep/124335 "2025-01-01T12:37:25Z")\
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> [@jar1](#):
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> An advantage of `PathSegment` is that this doesn’t happen: there is no `PathSegment("/home")`

Similarly, there is no `RelativePath("/home")` only `RelativePath("home")`, but other than that I think all your assers would hold, including at the end that `AbsolutePath("/home") != AbsolutePath("/tmp/home")`.

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