Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: 2 modules in one file

On 2008 Sep 5, at 19:36, Aaron Denney wrote:

On 2008-08-30, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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On 2008 Aug 30, at 4:22, Aaron Denney wrote:

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On 2008-08-27, Henrik Nilsson wrote:

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And there are also potential issues with not every legal module name being a legal file name across all possible file systems.

I find this unconvincing. Broken file systems need to be fixed.

Language people trying to impose constraints on filesystems is the tail wagging the dog.

I think it's safe to now declare that one that doesn't support unicode in some fashion, even if only a userland convention of using UTF-8, is indeed less usable, and hence broken.

It's not just UTF-8; Windows filesystems restrict a number of special characters (I don't think any are significant for module naming, but I can't swear to it either off the top of my head). Is this broken? If so, what do you think the chances are of getting it fixed? -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH