On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 10:00 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
I've amended the patch as suggested above, it turned out to be not too hard.
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Neil's comprehensive test suite still passes with the new patch.
Ticket, with new patch attached:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2034
The discussion deadline has long passed, so I propose we have another 2 weeks (18 November).
I support this new proposal. To summarise for people who have not been paying full attention: Currently: takeDirectory "Main.hs" = "" Proposed: takeDirectory "Main.hs" = "./" The purpose being that one can always take the directory and get a valid path to use with a file system function, eg createDirectory. Unchanged behaviour: "./" "Main.hs" = "./Main.hs" It was initially proposed that eat "./" on the left hand side but the current proposal leaves the behaviour of unchanged. Duncan