On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Ivan Raikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have been meaning to port the Haskell FilePath library to > Chicken, because I find its API to be quite elegant and better > organized than the existing file name manipulation routines in > Chicken. This discussion has prompted me to create the filepath egg, > which is an almost verbatim transliteration of the Haskell code, with > a few Chicken-specific idioms here and there. I have included a flag > parameter, which can be used to enable "Posix" mode or "Windows" > mode for path name parsing and manipulation. The Windows mode supports > weird things like UNC names and is aware of the DOS reserved names > (CON, PRN, etc). I would appreciate it if people look at it, as I > would like to see some variant of this API supersede the existing > Chicken path manipulation stuff. >
That library looks useful - nice port, Ivan. I would keep these things in extensions, though. There is already too much stuff in the core (I know I keep repeating this, but I'm really concerned about it). cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
