15 Mar
2007
15 Mar
'07
6:18 p.m.
Hi
Alas, this is no solution at all. The point is: Currently there is no explicit conversion FilePath <-> String, although this is really needed. Users e.g. enter FilePaths somehow through a GUI, on the command line, in a configuration file etc., so you often start with a String.
Surely both FilePath's and command line arguments are sufficiently string like that a reasonable interpretation of them is String? We don't want to provide an interface to Unix, we want to provide a proper abstraction over the underlying details. It would be a shame if on my Windows box I had to jump through artificial hoops because Posix is a bit broken... Thanks Neil