[Haskell-beginners] </>? Was: doesFileExist cannot get ~/blah_blah right

Tommy M. McGuire mcguire at crsr.net
Wed Apr 10 18:21:42 CEST 2013


Neither did I. (And I keep forgetting about hoogle. Sorry.)

Thanks!

On 04/09/2013 08:19 PM, David McBride wrote:
> I didn't even know the standard library had a </> operator.  Here's to
> learning new things.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu
> <mailto:byorgey at seas.upenn.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:25:10PM -0400, David McBride wrote:
>     > There is a package system-filepath
>     > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/system-filepath which fixes a
>     lot of
>     > quibbles people have with the way filepaths are implemented in
>     haskell.
[...]
> 
>     This is all true, though using system-filepath is still annoying to
>     use because it doesn't play well with everything else in the Haskell
>     ecosystem.  However, I was not referring to the (</>) in
>     system-filepath but rather the one in the standard 'filepath' package.
> 
>     -Brent
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