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it has the feeling of 'there are multiple different semantic datatypes at play here', like when you learn not to treat currency as floating-point values / not to treat zipcodes as integers / not to confuse user-space memory addresses and kernel-space memory addresses

like, the notion of equality for paths is different from the notion of equality for ordinary strings -- the pitfall here is that you might expect path equality but you're treated to exact string equality