2009/6/22 Max Rabkin <max.rab...@gmail.com>: > 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.
Are you saying that when a function is named "isDirectory" you expect it to only check for a trailing forward slash character? -- Deniz Dogan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
