[darcs-users] index format

[Eric Kow]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 08:08:25 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
> > The only place where dirlen is Nothing is when peekItem is called from
> > createItem. In this case, iName is never used, so the code is safe. Both
> > createItem and peekItem are supposed to be private in the Index module.
> > (I'll
> > add a remark that they are unsafe and I'll add explicit export list to the
> > module).
> 
> My recommendation is to make that field hold a Maybe instead of the raw
> value.

Alternatively, we could have a version used by createItem without the
dirlen field and a general version which takes a mandatory field.  I
don't know if this would lead to something ugly though.

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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