Don't get me wrong -- the socket support is pretty decent, but there are also
some weird idiosyncrasies, for example requiring that the PortNum is
specified in network byte order and lacking a function to convert
host->network byte order (hton).
PortNum is indeed strange, but it does allow yo to specify the
value in your local endian without swapping:
> print (toEnum 0x0102 :: PortNumber)
258
what is misleading you is that the obvious construction doesn't:
> print (PortNum 0x0102)
513
I'm suprised htonl comes up so often. You can unmarshall data directly
from a byte stream to an Int type without caring about the underlying
representation of your Int. Why do people want the htonl function?
Bardur Arantsson
Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
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