[Haskell-cafe] System.IO but not with Data.String?

Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbenga at gmail.com
Thu May 9 20:22:55 UTC 2024


Perfect! Yes, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Amazing that I
completely missed that, it's not even that new.

On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 1:01 PM Henning Thielemann
<lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
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>
> On Thu, 9 May 2024, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
>
> > We have Text and ByteString as alternatives to String but as soon as
> > you want to do anything IO related (read a file, get a directory's
> > content, et cetera) it seems your only option is to use String.
>
> Maybe you are looking for the new versions of 'filepath' and 'directory'
> packages that use the OsString type from 'os-string'?


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