Is there a reason / is not exported?

[tfiers]

I would assume there's no danger of conflict due to Julia's dispatch.

[rofinn]

It's not exported because the behaviour / in the context of filepaths is completely different then how it's defined in base. The argument made by core Julia devs is that we'd be randomly changing the meaning of / just by having FilePathsBase loaded in your environment. As a compromise, we've defined it as a completely separate unexported function that falls back to Base./. For reference, here's the original issue that triggered the change.

#53

[tfiers]

thanks for the pointer!
And for the great package :)

[tfiers]

Just for future reference and understanding (based on Jeff Bezanson's point 3 here):
If I understand correctly, the reason it is not desired to have /(::AbstractPath, …) exported by default,
is that this would cause all code using / to have longer compilation times.