Hello Einar, Saturday, February 04, 2006, 12:00:18 AM, you wrote:
KA> * Do you think that we have to use unboxed arrays of Word8/Word16 KA> for file path?
well, if FilePath should be ADT, then: 1) all operations that returns filenames (getFileContents, anything more?) should return this ADT instead 2) this ADT should support conversion to/from String (for interaction with users) and to/from [Word8] (to send these values across storage/network). Of course, these conversions should be as exact and revertible as possible, i think that at least we can make guarantee for ascii chars 3) all operations that receives filenames should accept a _class_ which includes String/[Word8]/this ADT of course, this means incompatible changes in the APIs, so it's better to introduce new fucntions that returns ADT/accepts class with a new names -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com