8 Nov
2011
8 Nov
'11
5:42 p.m.
On 11/8/11 6:04 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:
I really think we should provide the native APIs. The problem is that the System.Posix.Directory API is all in terms of FilePath (=String), and if we gave that a different meaning from the System.Directory FilePaths then confusion would ensue. So perhaps we need to add another API to System.Posix with filesystem operations in terms of ByteString, and similarly for Win32.
+1. It'd be nice to have an abstract FilePath. But until that happens, it's important to distinguish the automagic type from the raw type. H98's FilePath=String vs ByteString seems a good way to do that. -- Live well, ~wren