RE: [Haskell-cafe] File path programme

On 24 January 2005 22:11, Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:

Please, let's not ship this with the hierarchical libraries. It's not ready for prime time.

We decided to provide this library for purely pragmatic reasons. It's better than nothing. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2004-October/002605.html Doing a reasonable job on System.FilePath, even if it isn't perfect, will help prevent lots of applications from falling into common traps, and help make more code portable. Cheers, Simon