[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: System.FilePath 0.9

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:07:51AM +0100,
 Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 64 lines which said:

> I am specificially concentrating on type FilePath = String, because
> that is how it is defined by Haskell 98.

And if someone wants to define a "new" and "better" FilePath type, I
would prefer something more abstract, such as a list of Path
components, with functions to serialize it as a String and to parse it
from a String.