I've been making increased use of to-directory-tree recently and found that, counter-intuitively, it refuses to turn an empty Map into an empty directory:
dhall to-directory-tree <<< "[] : List {mapKey : Text, mapValue : Text}" --output result
results in:
You tried to translate the following expression to a directory tree:
↳ [] : List { mapKey : Text, mapValue : Text }
... which is not an expression that can be translated to a directory tree.
So whenever I want to generate a directory from a possibly empty Map, I have to turn it into an Optional-valued Map and enclose a dummy object with value None Text, which is rather inconvenient.
This seem like a bug to me. Is there a good reason for this behaviour?
Hi everyone.
I've been making increased use of
to-directory-treerecently and found that, counter-intuitively, it refuses to turn an empty Map into an empty directory:results in:
So whenever I want to generate a directory from a possibly empty Map, I have to turn it into an Optional-valued Map and enclose a dummy object with value
None Text, which is rather inconvenient.This seem like a bug to me. Is there a good reason for this behaviour?