[move to libraries@haskell.org] Yes. I agree here. There should be two modules say: System.FilePath.Posix & System.FilePath.Windows. There should be a third module System.FilePath that have to use the native path. It should switch between the Posix and Windows implementations either at runtime (Hugs, NHC) or compile time (GHC). Cheers, Krasimir 2006/2/3, John Meacham :

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:29:34AM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:

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I wrote a separate FilePath module for Yhc, which is available at: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/yhc-devel/src/compiler98/Util/FilePath.hs

The advantage of this one is that it doesn't use any #ifdef's, so is entirely portable between Unix/Windows - important if you want to be able to create a binary that runs anywhere.

also if you want to manipulate windows paths from unix and vice versa. any standard library should support that sort of thing. John

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