Prompted by a suggestion from Sigbjorn, I propose to clarify 
the description of Directory.getDirectoryContents.   Current
description:

"Computation getDirectoryContents dir returns a list of all entries in
dir."

I propose to add: 

"Each entry in the returned list is named relative to the directory dir,
not as an absolute path."

Any objections?

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Sigbjorn Finne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
| Sent: 18 October 2001 23:02
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Subject: haskell98: Directory.getDirectoryContents
| 
| 
| Hi,
| 
| not a big one, but it may be worth clarifying the behaviour 
| of the above function, i.e., are the elements of the result 
| list prefixed with the directory or not?
| 
| GHC and Hugs (and I suspect the other two) do not prefix the 
| directory, which I think is as it should be, but the report 
| isn't clear about what the user can expect here.
| 
| --sigbjorn
| 
| 
| 

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