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Documentation for method resolve in IO::Path taken verbatim from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/perl6/specs/master/S32-setting-library/IO.pod
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=head2 method resolve
method resolve(IO::Path:D: --> IO::Path)
Returns a new C<IO::Path> object with all symbolic links and references to the
parent directory (C<..>) are physically resolved. This means that the
filesystem is examined for each directory in the path, and any symlinks found
are followed.
# bar is a symlink pointing to "/baz"
my $io = "foo/./bar/..".IO.resolve; # now "/" (the parent of "/baz")
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coke commented May 19, 2016

the phrasing is a little awkward, this is slightly better IMO

Returns a new CIO::Path object with all symbolic links and references to the
parent directory (C<..>) resolved. This means that the

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Fixed, thanks for the feedback.

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