implementation of file-related modules

[Jon Fairbairn]

On 2003-10-09 at 10:42+0200 ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no  wrote:
> Isaac Jones <ijones at syntaxpolice.org> writes:
> 
> > * Some languages have a means of building paths in a portable way.  It
> >   would be nice if we had access a file separator (like "/" in unix
> >   and "\" in windows).
> 
> If this is really necessary, I'd prefer it if it was taken care of
> "under the hood". 

Why can't we just adopt URL (is that the right one or is it
URI or URN) notation? Ideally we'd have something that
handled all the possible protocols, but using the post ":"
part of <file://whatever> would cover the syntactic
differences mentioned above.

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Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk