Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in canonical-path?

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:03:30AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Ivan Raikov <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I have been meaning to port the Haskell FilePath library to
> > Chicken, because I find its API to be quite elegant and better
> > organized than the existing file name manipulation routines in
> > Chicken. This discussion has prompted me to create the filepath egg,
> > which is an almost verbatim transliteration of the Haskell code, with
> > a few Chicken-specific idioms here and there. I have included a flag
> > parameter, which can be used to enable "Posix" mode or "Windows"
> > mode for path name parsing and manipulation. The Windows mode supports
> > weird things like UNC names and is aware of the DOS reserved names
> > (CON, PRN, etc). I would appreciate it if people look at it, as I
> > would like to see some variant of this API supersede the existing
> > Chicken path manipulation stuff.
> >
> 
> That library looks useful - nice port, Ivan.
> 
> I would keep these things in extensions, though. There is already too much
> stuff in the core (I know I keep repeating this, but I'm really concerned 
> about
> it).

I think Ivan is not suggesting _adding_ this to core, but rather
_replacing_ what we have in core with this.  In total, this should
have the net effect of adding nothing (though I don't know how big
both libraries are).

Cheers,
Peter
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