There is a package system-filepath
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/system-filepath which fixes a lot of
quibbles people have with the way filepaths are implemented in haskell.
There are apparently a lot of problems with using strings as filepaths,
like the fact that they are slow, that they have encoding issues, and that
people cannot make a path that is system agnostic.
So the operator in that library just joins two filepaths together with
the correct slash.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tommy M. McGuire
On 04/09/2013 07:07 AM, Brent Yorgey wrote:
Also, since we are discussing portability, it's a much better idea to do
homedir "blah_blah"
instead of homedir ++ "/blah_blah", since the former will use the correct path separator character for whatever system it is compiled on.
Wait, what? Where'd "" come from?
-- Tommy M. McGuire mcguire@crsr.net
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