[Haskell-cafe] File path programme

Mark Carroll markc at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue Jan 25 15:13:57 EST 2005


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
(snip)
> If problems are in the implementation but the interface is right, then
> the module should be provided. It can be fixed later.
(snip)

A lot of the Haskell libraries are sufficiently poorly documented that I
work out what they do by experiment, or by resorting to reading the
source.

There is a risk that code will be developed that relies on the observed
broken behaviour, and is then broken when the implementation is fixed.

-- Mark



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