Hi there.
> That would take care of the incompatibility here, but
> it's a slippery slope.
Just how slippery the filename slope can get is shown by Common Lisp
filename/logical pathnames:
http://www.cs.queensu.ca/software_docs/gnudev/gcl-ansi/gcl_1063.html#SEC1063
> Should Haskell provide you w
That would take care of the incompatibility here, but
it's a slippery slope. Should Haskell provide you with
a platform-independent view of filenames and file
systems?
--sigbjorn
- Original Message -
From: "Simon Peyton-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sigbjorn Finne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sigbjorn (and others interested in Win32 I/O behaviour)
The fact that MS CRT differs from Unix doesn't mean that the Haskell
interface should necessarily differ. The Haskell impl of
doesDirectoryExist could, on Win32, trim off trailing '/' or '\', in
order to make the behaviour consistent. Where
Bugs item #626263, was opened at 2002-10-21 09:46
You can respond by visiting:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=108032&aid=626263&group_id=8032
Category: Compiler
Group: 5.04.1
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: John Hughes (rjmh)
Assigned to: Nobody/Ano
