2015-06-28 16:47 GMT+02:00 Boespflug, Mathieu <m...@tweag.io>: > Notice that the kind of normalization I'm talking about, specified in > the link I provided, does not include this kind of normalization. > Because it requires the IO monad to perform correctly, and only on > real paths. > > Here is the link again: > > > https://hackage.haskell.org/package/filepath-1.1.0.2/docs/System-FilePath-Posix.html#v:normalise > [...] >
OK, then I misunderstood what you meant by "normalizing". But a question remains then: What is a use case for having equality modulo "normalise"? It throws together a few more paths which plain equality on strings would consider different, but it is still not semantic equality in the sense of "these 2 paths refer to the same dir/file". So unless there is a compelling use case (which I don't see), I don't see a point in always doing "normalise". Or do I miss something?
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