Re: [Haskell-beginners] Reading a list of null-terminated filenames from stdin?

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote:

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On what operating system can filenames contain newlines?

Any unixlike system. You would need to quote the newline from the shell, but it is perfectly valid.

Valid... Ok Perfectly?? Here's a counter view http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html Summary: Funny chars in filenames is a feature close to a bug in *Nix filesystems So my advice for this would be: - If you have better things to do dont bother - if for some reason you do need to bother, respect Postel's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle and allow it out more reluctantly than in