Re: [Haskell] System.FilePath survey

David Roundy wrote:

being able to write

writeFile "output" contents

would seem to me to be worth the complexity of having a class [for pathnames].

I'd rather give string constants the type Str a => a, with class Str a where fromASCII :: ByteArray -> a fromUTF8 :: ByteArray -> a and declare an instance for the pathname ADT. GHC already handles string constants this way internally. Of course, this becomes yet another source of unresolved overloadings and confusion for newbies. -- Ben