[MLton] Windows ports and paths
Andreas Rossberg
rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de
Mon, 02 May 2005 17:12:43 +0200
Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
>
> Instead of taking mkCanonical of the path arguement, our version just
> compares the canonName form of the paths. If we make it canonical like
> Andreas suggested, several regressions result, including some explicitly
> listed in the standard (eg: "/a/b/" + "/a/c/" -> "../b/" not "../b").
Indeed, that is a more conservative fix.
> I also special-cased concat (_, "") to behave as before.
Mh, why is that preferable, when it deviates from the spec?
- Andreas
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Andreas Rossberg, rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de
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