On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 09:31 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Jun 22, 2009, at 07:37 , Duncan Coutts wrote: > > One explanation is that isBlah asks "is this thing a blah", but we're > > not asking that because there is an indirection via the filepath. > > We're > > asking "does this filepath refer to a directory" not "is this > > filename a > > directory". The latter could be a function: > > > > isDirectory :: FileInfo -> Bool > > > > along with a hypothetical > > > > getFileInfo :: FilePath -> IO FileInfo > > Hypothetical? > > > import System.Posix.Files (getFileStatus, isDirectory)
Yeah, if we could make a standard portable variant of this, that'd be great. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
