2015-06-28 16:47 GMT+02:00 Boespflug, Mathieu
Notice that the kind of normalization I'm talking about, specified in the link I provided, does not include this kind of normalization. Because it requires the IO monad to perform correctly, and only on real paths.
Here is the link again:
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/filepath-1.1.0.2/docs/System-FilePath-Po... [...]
OK, then I misunderstood what you meant by "normalizing". But a question remains then: What is a use case for having equality modulo "normalise"? It throws together a few more paths which plain equality on strings would consider different, but it is still not semantic equality in the sense of "these 2 paths refer to the same dir/file". So unless there is a compelling use case (which I don't see), I don't see a point in always doing "normalise". Or do I miss something?