<div dir="auto">Of course.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I see lots of approvals and not really any dissenters. Are we waiting for more responses? Or is there anything we can do to kick start this?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 9, 2026, 10:22 PM Brian Burkhalter <<a href="mailto:brian.burkhalter@oracle.com">brian.burkhalter@oracle.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



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<div>On Jan 8, 2026, at 1:50 PM, David Alayachew <<a href="mailto:davidalayachew@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">davidalayachew@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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I am perfectly happy with the idea of deprecating the Path.{start,ends}With(String), and then only add the file extension method. Originally, I didn't know that new method was on the table, so I suggested a rename. But the file extension api feels like the
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10 times out of 10, if I am calling endsWith, the only time I am not looking for "whole" path elements is when I am looking for a file extension. In every other instance, the api does exactly what I expect and want. And plus, something like looking for a file
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