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

[Hilco Wijbenga]

Ah, that looks very useful indeed, thank you.

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 1:37 PM Andrew Lelechenko
<andrew.lelechenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> See also a companion package https://hackage.haskell.org/package/file-io, which connects efficient and correct OsPath with ByteString-based readFile / writeFile.
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew
>
> > On 9 May 2024, at 21:22, Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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