Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to determine if a FilePath is a directory name or regular file?

On Jun 22, 2009, at 07:37 , Duncan Coutts wrote:

One explanation is that isBlah asks "is this thing a blah", but we're not asking that because there is an indirection via the filepath. We're asking "does this filepath refer to a directory" not "is this filename a directory". The latter could be a function:

isDirectory :: FileInfo -> Bool

along with a hypothetical

getFileInfo :: FilePath -> IO FileInfo

Hypothetical?

import System.Posix.Files (getFileStatus, isDirectory)

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