On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 04:48:39PM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Saturday, June 26, 2010, 4:44:20 PM, Felipe Lessa wrote: > > Even if we said "we don't care", we at least should change > > FilePath to be [Word8], and not [String]. Currently filepaths > > are silently "truncated" if any codepoint is beyond 255. > > and there is no OS except Unix ;)
Of course there is, however we should use the least common denominator if we want to create portable programs. Even if other OSs worked fine, should I use this API (i.e. type FilePath = String) to its fullest extent, my program will suddently become unportable to all Unix OSs. Cheers, -- Felipe. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe