[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell not ready for Foo [was: Re: Hypothetical Haskell job in New York]

[Bardur Arantsson]

John Goerzen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:37:55PM +0100, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> Look at Haddock for PortNumber:
> 
> newtype PortNumber
>   Constructors
>     PortNum Word16  
> 
>   Instances
> 
>   Enum PortNumber
>   Eq PortNumber
>   Integral PortNumber
>   Num PortNumber
>   Ord PortNumber
>   Real PortNumber
>   Show PortNumber
>   Typeable PortNumber
>   Storable PortNumber
> 
> Try it in ghci:
> 
> Prelude Network.Socket> 15 :: PortNumber
> 15
> Prelude Network.Socket> PortNum 15
> 3840
> Prelude Network.Socket> (fromIntegral (15::Int))::PortNumber
> 15
> 
> So, in essence, there are *many* functions that let you do this.  You
> should not be needing to construct PortNum by hand.

Thanks. For some reason I hadn't thought to use

    (fromIntegral x)::PortNumber

I guess I got stuck on the idea of constructing a PortNum directly and 
didn't think beyond that. (Maybe PortNum should really be an abstract 
type to force indirect construction...?)

I guess the API isn't all that idiosyncratic after all :).

Cheers,

Bardur Arantsson