[Haskell-cafe] Re: Network.Socket Woes

[Adam Langley]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Benedikt Schmidt <beschmi at gmail.com> wrote:
>  The PortNumber type is an instance of Num, so it works  if you do not
>  use the PortNum constructor.
>
>  Prelude Network.Socket> case 10162 :: PortNumber of PortNum p -> p
>  45607

And there was the trick that I've been missing all this time ;) I'll
probably submit a documentation patch for this since I'm a Bear of
Little Brain and this wasn't obvious to me.

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