Abstract FilePath Proposal

[Alois Cochard]

+1 for the first two phase of the original proposal. I always wished it was
not a type alias.

No strong opinion of phase 3, I have propabaly never run into sophisticated
enough issues to fully get the picture... but I doubt we'll be able to
craft an ideal cross-platform API, I like what is in spirit in the original
proposal.

On 29 June 2015 at 11:27, David Turner <dct25-561bs at mythic-beasts.com>
wrote:

> 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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>> Hello *,
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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
>>
>>   type FilePath = String
>>
>> into an abstract/opaque data type instead.
>>
>> Why/How/When?
>> =============
>>
>> For details (including motivation and a suggested transition scheme)
>> please consult
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>>   https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Proposal/AbstractFilePath
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