[Haskell-cafe] How to compare PortNumbers or Bug in Network.Socket?

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Fri Mar 13 02:54:27 EDT 2009


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com> wrote:

> So the Ord instance is wrong for the PortNumber type?  Well, maybe not
> wrong.


It's out and out wrong. You get different results on machines of different
endianness. Now, this begs the question of why not just simply use an
unwrapped Word16 instead :-)
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