On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:36:13AM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: > >> pathSeparator :: Char > >> The character that seperates directories. > >So what do I do with this? If I need it, it seems like the module has > >failed. > Hopefully no one will ever use it. Its part of the low level functions > that the FilePath module builds on. However, pragmatically, someone > somewhere will have a use for it, and the second they do they'll just > write '/', and at that point we've lost.
I'd just point out that I'm not aware of an operating system that GHC runs on that doesn't accept '/' as a path separator. It may be that you could fine an OS where you could compile with jhc or run with hugs that doesn't use '/' (e.g. MacOS 9), but support for MacOS 9 at this stage I wouldn't consider a high priority. Since noone ought to need the path separator, and since they can currently assume '/' without loss of portability, it seems like adding in an extra function to protect us from the introduction of an operating system some time in the future that doesn't allow '/' as a path separator is a bit much. Of course, I may be wrong. Does windows disallow mixing of '/' and '\\' as path separators? In darcs we always just use '/' as all the path separators, and it works fine... -- David Roundy _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
