On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 05:01:06PM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Even if we said "we don't care", we at least should change FilePath to be [Word8], and not [String]. Currently filepaths
other OSs worked fine, should I use this API (i.e. type FilePath = String) to its fullest extent, my program will suddently become unportable to all Unix OSs.
but what you propose cannot be used in Windows at all! while current FilePath still works on Unix, with manual filenames en/decoding
Now we got back on topic! :) The FilePath datatype is OS-dependent and making it abstract should be at least a first step. If you got it from somewhere else where it is already encoded, then fine. If you need to construct it, then you need to use a smart constructor. If you need to show/print it, then you need to convert it to String. And so on. Cheers, -- Felipe.