On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:06:23AM -0700, Dmitry Kurochkin wrote: >>> Is there any reason not to use System.Directory.canonicalizePath in >>> ioAbsolute? It seems to do just what we need. >> >> The main reason would be that there doesn't seem to be any >> documentation indicating what System.Directory.canonicalizePath does. >> It could be there's some in the source, but the haddock docs aren't >> adequate. If it doesn't do exactly what we want, we'll have to >> reimplement it anyhow. > > The GHC people will doubtless accept patches to fix the docs ;-)
But I've read the code and still don't know what it does, so I don't have the knowledge to write useful docs. As far as I can tell, the docs are accurate when they say that you shouldn't use this function if you really care what it's doing. David _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
