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

[John Goerzen]

Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> 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 

No problem.  I knew exactly what your problem was because I had the
exact same blinders on when I first learned the Haskell networking API.
 It would be helpful to have a pointer to this in the Haddock docs,
because it is non-intuitive to somebody just learning it.

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

Just a touch under-documented ;-)