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Thanks for helping to continue to the discussion.
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<div>On Jan 7, 2026, at 4:13 PM, Olexandr Rotan <rotanolexandr842@gmail.com> wrote:</div>
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am not sure if thoughts similar to mine were already present in the thread, but I am not sure there is any particular value in adding any replacement methods for deprecated ones.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">
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<div>Nor am I.</div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">To
me it seems like path.toString.{starts,ends}With provides endlessly more clarity on what is going on, besides maybe pathString{ends,starts}With, but this name seems clumsy, in some way resembling some denormalized column name in db in a way that it traverses
multiple mental indirections to explain clearly enough what it does</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">
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<div>Indeed the name is clumsy.</div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">So,
as I think, unless there is a substantial optimization to offer from merging this two operations, i would prefer just suggesting to use toString().{starts,ends}With directly</span></div>
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<div>Maybe that is the way to go: just deprecating Path.{ends,starts}With(String) and nothing else.</div>
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<div>Brian</div>
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