[Haskell-cafe] Cleaner networking API - network-fancy

[John A. De Goes]

Thank goodness for a cleaner networking API. I almost chose Haskell's  
socket API as an example of what _not_ to do in my series on Good API  
Design (http://jdegoes.squarespace.com/journal/2009/5/11/good-api-design-part-3.html 
).

Ended up going with Java though. :-)

Regards,

John A. De Goes
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On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:14 AM, Taru Karttunen wrote:

> Hello
>
> network-fancy offers a cleaner API to networking facilities in
> Haskell. It supports high-level operations on tcp, udp and unix
> sockets.
>
> I would like some feedback on the API
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/network-fancy/0.1.4/doc/html/Network-Fancy.html
>
> In particular:
> * Does the type of the server function in dgramServer make sense?
>  or would (packet -> Address -> (packet -> IO ()) -> IO ()) be
>  better?
> * Does the StringLike class make sense?
> * Any other suggestions?
>
> - Taru Karttunen
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