Greetings. Back in October, there was a discussion on the System.FilePath module that's currently the hidden module Distribution.Compat.FilePath in Cabal: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2004-October/002591.html It was decided that we should not include it as System.FilePath because it was insufficiently consistent, had some confusing corner cases, and some folks felt that FilePath should be an abstract type. A number of people would like to use the FilePath module as it is, and someone has even packaged it up separately, so I think we should move forward in building a module that performs this task. For those who objected at the time, can someone put together a list of requirements for the FilePath module you believe we need? (Perhaps on the Wiki?) FWIW, the module we have is very similar to the SML and Python modules which perform this task, and most likely very similar to other languages' modules. In short, I think this approach works in practice, but not in theory, as Lemmih said on IRC ;) peace, isaac