[Haskell-cafe] System.FilePath, Request for comments

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Sun Jul 2 13:55:04 EDT 2006


On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:14:07PM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello David,
> 
> Saturday, July 1, 2006, 5:17:07 PM, you wrote:
> 
> >> >The other important point regarding ADT's is what is a FilePath and
> >> >what is a String? If I set the extension of a FilePath, is that
> 
> > My leaning (and you could search the archives for a post on the
> > subject by Ian Lynagh) is to have a class rather than an ADT for
> > filepaths.
> 
> :)  i mean "Abstract Data Type" (i.e., class) when say "ADT". Just
> today i've realized that in Haskell ADT should has another meaning :)

Oh good, then we're in agreement!  :)
-- 
David Roundy


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