Re: Abstract FilePath Proposal

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

What? =====

We (see From: & CC: headers) propose, plain and simple, to turn the currently defined type-synonym

type FilePath = String

into an abstract/opaque data type instead.

Has someone else tried the pathtype package? http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pathtype I found its idea great, but in practice I could not use it because it always tries to canonicalize paths on initialization.