Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Python also has os.walk, a very convenient functional (sort of)
tool for recursing through directories. (It sounds trivial, but
it is not, there are enough annoying details that this function
saves huge amounts of time.) Very embarrassing that Haskell
is missing this.
See System.FilePath.Find in
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/FileManip-0.2
How about a built-in function that represents a directory tree
as a lazy Data.Tree?
Not a very good idea. Representing a directory structure as a tree
makes people think they can manipulate it as if it were a tree, which
leads to all kinds of nasty bugs when the real world bleeds through the
holes in the abstraction.
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