9 Dec
2007
9 Dec
'07
2:24 p.m.
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Johannes Waldmann wrote:
Ian Lynagh wrote:
I'm having some problems using filepath in GHC. [...]
I'm sure this has been said before: using the type string to avoid an ADT is generally a bad idea. (it's the "primitive obsession" code smell.)
I want to second this, since e.g. the current directory is not in all OSs denoted by '.'. E.g. in good old AmigaOS (where sadly I don't know a Haskell implementation for, yet) the current directory is represented by the empty string. It seems to me that denoting the current directory by "." is rather Windows/Unix-centric.