On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 23:27:13 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote: >Andrew Coppin wrote: >>> Is there a way to get rid of "." and ".." in the results? > >Brandon S. Allbery wrote: >> Manual filtering is always required, whether C, Perl, Haskell, etc. >> I dunno, maybe python filters them for you or something. > >Correct, Python filters them out. This is clearly the correct >behavior. That is what is needed in the vast majority >of cases, and it is still reasonably easy to deal >with the unusual cases. > >It is too bad that Haskell is among the many languages >that get this wrong. > >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. > >How about a built-in function that represents a directory tree >as a lazy Data.Tree?
http://therning.org/magnus/index.php?tag=haskell&paged=3 Not really what you're looking for, but hopefully it's a good place to start. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus．therning＠gmail．com http://therning.org/magnus
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