One tiny amendment to a comment(!) in the non-normative(!) code in Phase 3:
data WindowsFilePath = WFP ByteArray# -- UTF16 data
If a Windows file path is valid UTF-16 then it is displayed as such in the
GUI, but if not it's still a legal file path. It really is just wchar_t[]
data:
data WindowsFilePath = WFP ByteArray# -- wchar_t[] data as passed to syscalls
This seems to be the source of some confusion.
Cheers,
David
On 26 June 2015 at 17:08, Herbert Valerio Riedel
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Hello *,
What? =====
We (see From: & CC: headers) propose, plain and simple, to turn the currently defined type-synonym
type FilePath = String
into an abstract/opaque data type instead.
Why/How/When? =============
For details (including motivation and a suggested transition scheme) please consult
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Proposal/AbstractFilePath
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