13 Aug
2012
13 Aug
'12
10:23 a.m.
Quoth Evan Laforge
... or at least make sure the haskell version doesn't suffer from problems fixed in the python one.
Exactly. This morning I'm reading suggested solutions that would work only some of the time, or on only some platforms, which wouldn't be satisfactory in the long run. Though speaking of platforms, I guess one large headache would be what to do about Microsoft operating systems. Given the unusual nature of these functions (I mean, what operating-system-independent command are you going to invoke, anyway?), maybe it would be OK for the more elaborate support functions to be POSIX / Windows specific. At the level where people are redirecting the output FD and not the error FD, etc. Donn