On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Deniz Dogan<deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think see what you mean, but I find the argument more of an excuse > to the poor naming than a solid argument for it. Following the > convention and intuition that most users have should be more important > than making the (sometimes unnecessary) distinction between a > directory and the path to it.
I disagree. (isDirectory "/no/such/directory/") should equal true: the given FilePath is a directory path (on Unix), since it ends with a slash. However (doesDirectoryExist "/no/such/directory") should return false, since there is no such directory. > -- > Deniz Dogan --Max _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe