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

2009/6/22 Max Rabkin :

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote:

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I think see what you mean, but I find the argument more of an excuse to the poor naming than a solid argument for it. Following the convention and intuition that most users have should be more important than making the (sometimes unnecessary) distinction between a directory and the path to it.

I disagree. (isDirectory "/no/such/directory/") should equal true: the given FilePath is a directory path (on Unix), since it ends with a slash. However (doesDirectoryExist "/no/such/directory") should return false, since there is no such directory.

Are you saying that when a function is named "isDirectory" you expect it to only check for a trailing forward slash character? -- Deniz Dogan