===== Original Message From Krasimir Angelov <kr.angelov@gmail.com> ===== Hello Haskellers,
There was a long discussion in October 2004, about the a FilePath module which is currently used in Cabal. There was an idea to move it to the standard libraries but since there were a lot of objections it was removed.
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2004-October/002591.html
I would like to hear what the community think we need for the proper file path handling. This module is important if we would like to make Haskell more portable. Please answer to the following questions:
* Have you used the existing FilePath module and what do you think about it? Do you found it useful? Have you made any significant bugfixes or extensions to it?
* Will you be happy with a library that represents the file path as String? The opposite is to use ADT for it. The disadvantage is that with the current IO library we should convert from ADT to String and back again each time when we have to do any IO. The ADT may have advantages for the internal library implementation.
* Do you think that we have to use unboxed arrays of Word8/Word16 for file path?
Any other suggestions are welcome. Since such kind of discussions are going to be rather long please reply to libraries@haskell.org
Cheers, Krasimir _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell