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

[felix winkelmann]

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).


cheers,
felix