Re: implementation of file-related modules

On 2003-10-09 at 10:42+0200 ketil+haskell@ii.uib.no wrote:

Isaac Jones writes:

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* Some languages have a means of building paths in a portable way. It would be nice if we had access a file separator (like "/" in unix and "\" in windows).

If this is really necessary, I'd prefer it if it was taken care of "under the hood".

Why can't we just adopt URL (is that the right one or is it URI or URN) notation? Ideally we'd have something that handled all the possible protocols, but using the post ":" part of file://whatever would cover the syntactic differences mentioned above. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk