System.FilePath.joinDrive problem

[Aaron Denney]

On 2007-11-03, Twan van Laarhoven <twanvl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The joinDrive function currently produces paths such as "C:File" when 
> calling  "C:" </> "File". This is apparently handled in a special case:
>
> >              | otherwise = case a of
> >                                [a1,':'] | isLetter a1 -> a ++ b
> >                                _ -> a ++ [pathSeparator] ++ b
>
> This seems wrong, as far as I know "C:File" is not a valid path. What is 
> the reason for this special case?

C:File refers to the file "File" in the current directory on drive c:.
Each drive in windows has its own current directory.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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