On May 2, 2007, at 7:00 , Claus Reinke wrote:
my question. similarly for the unix dependency - it could be
inherent in the
design, or an accident of the author's current platform.
The Haskell libraries don't currently provide a platform-independent
way to do most file tests. I discovered this while working on the
file test operators in Pugs: aside from some very basic tests,
everything interesting requires the POSIX hierarchy (hence the unix
package).
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