Re: Parsec: GHC /= Hugs?

"Alastair Reid" writes:

Sigbjorn Finne writes:

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That'll work just fine, but Hugs is now a bit more clever, letting you use ":" as the path separator in path lists on Windows platforms also.

Does this work with DOS-style filenames like "c:\temp\foo.hs"? If so, how does Hugs distinguish the two different uses of colons?

For platforms that support DOS filenames, "....:c:\temp:..." is interpreted as one element in a search path list, but "...:c:/temp:..." is treated as consisting of two, "c" and "/temp". The GHC code goes further and probes the file system to determine the interpretation of a path element that starts with "<drive>:\" (or "<drive>:/"). With a little bit of effort, Hugs could do the same. --sigbjorn