8 Feb
2006
8 Feb
'06
12:13 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:39:38AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
Andrew Pimlott wrote:
I don't see why merely introducing an ADT would break anyone's code, as there is no existing standard filepath model, therefore no code to break!
Sure there's an existing filepath model - the IO module contains this:
type FilePath = String
Sorry, I mistyped. I meant "filepath module", ie the path manipulation functions.
Yes, but you didn't change FilePath, you added some new file path types and operations, so anyone using your library has to convert from one to the other in order to call exisitng IO operations.
Right, that's an inconvenience. As I wrote it, though, it's only a matter of calling "show". Andrew