On 2007-12-09, Neil Mitchell
Hi
The first is this: Prelude System.FilePath> "." "foo" "./foo" which means we get things like [2 of 2] Compiling GHC.Foo ( ./GHC/Foo.hs, ./GHC/Foo.o ) rather than [2 of 2] Compiling GHC.Foo ( GHC/Foo.hs, GHC/Foo.o ) Is there a reason the result shouldn't be "foo"?
My best guess is that "." "foo" should equal "./foo". However, I'm not overly wedded to this behaviour, so if the general consensus is the other way, I'll happily implement that.
Concur that "./foo" is correct.
Possibly relatedly, the current directory seems to be "" rather than ".". This turns up in at least a couple of areas: Prelude System.FilePath> normalise "." ""
I would say this is a bug, and that normalise "." should be ".".
Yep.
Prelude System.FilePath> splitFileName "foo" ("","foo")
I'd say this was expected. In a similar way, takeDirectory "foo" gives "", not "./".
If the result type of splitFileName must be (String, String), I think this is the best embedding of no directory into String. However, I think that this might be the wrong API. (Maybe String, String) would be better. (And Maybe String for takeDirectory). -- Aaron Denney -><-