
16 Mar
2007
16 Mar
'07
4:43 a.m.
Hello Neil, Friday, March 16, 2007, 6:22:05 AM, you wrote:
There is a key difference here, ByteString is actively being worked on as a research area. I'm 100% happy with FilePath, I don't intend to go anywhere near it - I have plenty of research to do and none of it involves putting /slashes\ the right way round!
yes, *you* are happy with it and therefore propose to add it to the base. *i* want to see it evolved sometime to support various bytestring kinds and therefore propose to keep it in separate library. otherwise, we will got either incompatibility between ghc versions or legacy system.filepath in base and new version in some 3rd-party library -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com