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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> It's unfortunate that ":" has so many meanings attached to it.

Yeah, I still recall that there were people who said ":/$path looks
similar to the way how the object at the $path in the index is named" as
if it were an advantage.  Maybe they were all misguided ;-).