20:06 <FromGitter> <ondreian> `Path["/home/crystal/~/some/project"]` is not a valid path, it's treating `~` like a string literal instead of expanding it to the home directory of the current user

20:06 <FromGitter> <ondreian> Sorry for the late response, but i was in intermittent connectivity for awhile and gitter does not work well in those situations at all

20:07 <FromGitter> <ondreian> It should instead be expanding this to `/home/crystal/some/project`

20:14 <FromGitter> <ondreian> Ultimately it's treating it like a String when file paths are not actually Strings

20:15 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> but what if you did `cd ~ && mkdir -p '~/some/project'`

20:15 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> you can have a directory named `~`

20:27 <riza> typically if you want to expand the ~ or . / .., you need to use a special function to expand them

20:27 <riza> eg https://crystal-lang.org/api/1.4.0/Path.html#expand(base:Path|String=Dir.current,*,home:Path|String|Bool=false,expand_base=true):Path-instance-method

20:28 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> `Path["~/some/project"].expand home: true` would do what you want

20:33 <riza> i think the default behavior of home is true as well

20:36 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> Naw it's false by default

20:37 <riza> thats interesting... and it might well be the cause of a bug or two I've been living with for quite some time

20:39 <FromGitter> <ondreian> The false behavior bit me on an upgrade a week ago

20:42 <FromGitter> <ondreian> ```code paste, see link``` ⏎ ⏎ i'm not quite sure what's going on here why the are prefixed with `::`? Does this have the same meaning as Ruby? [https://gitter.im/crystal-lang/crystal?at=62fea44b6837563d1c4c2274]

20:43 <FromGitter> <ondreian> To me, that looks like it should compile

20:57 <riza> I can't see it in gitter for some reason

20:57 <riza> oh you didn't post the code, just the error

20:58 <riza> you're passing in uid as an i64 but your overload wants an ui64

20:59 <riza> method signature says: uid: Int64, overload says: uid : ::UInt64

20:59 <riza> don't worry about teh prefix ::

21:00 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> what does false behavior have to do with that error?

21:03 <riza> i think that error is unrelated to the false behavior

21:06 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> the `::` prefix basically means like "top level reference"

21:06 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> (https://files.gitter.im/5588134315522ed4b3e2629f/59NK/image.png)

21:10 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> can also be used with methods. E.g. say you added your own `raise` method but still want to call the default one, could do `::raise "oh no"`

21:44 <FromGitter> <ondreian> ah yeah, thanks