Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So, the question is, "Should readFile on a directory throw an IO
> > error?" If so, then there is a bug in Hugs; if not, there is a bug
> > (or at least a severe misfeature) in Green Card (and a bug in the ghc
> > libraries, which do throw an IO error).
>
> I rather think that openning a directory fail, because attempting to perform
> any other operations on that directory (such as reading from it) will fail
> anyway, and we have the Directory module for dealing with directories.
The function readFile takes a filename and returns the contents of
that file; there's no seperate "open" to fail.
Carl Witty
