Abstract FilePath Proposal

[David Turner]

One tiny amendment to a comment(!) in the non-normative(!) code in Phase 3:

data WindowsFilePath = WFP ByteArray# -- UTF16 data


If a Windows file path is valid UTF-16 then it is displayed as such in the
GUI, but if not it's still a legal file path. It really is just wchar_t[]
data:

data WindowsFilePath = WFP ByteArray# -- wchar_t[] data as passed to syscalls


This seems to be the source of some confusion.


Cheers,


David



On 26 June 2015 at 17:08, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> wrote:

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> What?
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> We (see From: & CC: headers) propose, plain and simple, to turn the
> currently defined type-synonym
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>   type FilePath = String
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> into an abstract/opaque data type instead.
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> Why/How/When?
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> For details (including motivation and a suggested transition scheme)
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>   https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Proposal/AbstractFilePath
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> Suggested discussion period: 4 weeks
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