RE: openFile and text mode vs. binary mode

18 Jun 2003

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:33:53AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
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The question is: is this the interface that we want to expose from
System.IO?  Personally I have two criticisms: openFileEx is not a
particularly descriptive name, and I don't see a reason for 
IOMode to be
nested inside IOModeEx.  So I'd suggest this instead:
openBinaryFile :: FilePath -> IOMode -> IO Handle
Perhaps openFileAs? openBinaryFile sounds a bit like it would 
only open it
as a binary, whereas in fact it actually gives you the option 
of opening it
either as binary or as text.
Well, my intention was that openBinaryFile would open the file as
binary, and the ordinary openFile would open it in text mode.  That is,
we would get rid of the IOModeEx type.

Cheers,
	Simon