I live in a different universe, but over here I prefer to represent files purely as memory-mapped objects. [...]
I'd prefer "official" support for this in Haskell, too. The need for this and other I/O-related stuff was recognized by the Java community, too: It resulted in the java.nio package family, see e.g.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/
I suggest we should have a look at this before re-inventing the wheel. Not that all Java libraries are perfect in their first incarnation, far from it, see e.g. java.awt, java.net.URL, java.io, ... :-P But the second try (javax.swing, java.net.URI, java.nio, ...) is often quite usable, so we can probably learn some useful concepts from the latter.
Cheers, S.
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