In the language of UNIX, the leading / is always shorthand for "hard drive", and the ~ is always shorthand for "/Users/myusername"; your way is redundant...a cumbersome attempt to reinvent the language.
Actually, the leading
/ represents the
root directory, which is the highest level directory on the
boot volume, which in turn is typically an internal hard drive but may also be an external hard drive, a removable disc (floppy, optical, etc.) in an internal or external drive, a flash drive, or a network server.
There's nothing redundant about deniro's preferred representation of the path to the Applications Support folder in the user's Library folder. It is the literal path. Use of the tilde to stand for
/Users/myusername is a frequently used shortcut, yes, but drag
~/Library/Application Support into a Terminal window and see what appears.
deniro's not guilty of any reinvention of the language, cumbersome or otherwise.
