[Haskell-cafe] Sockets get bound to wrong port on Windows

[Ketil Malde]

Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com> writes:

>>   *Main> PortNum 8888
>>   47138

> The PortNum constructor should rarely be used directly

So, shouldn't the constructor be hidden, and exported from an .Internal
module? 

> - it contains the port number in network-order. You should try:

Or perhaps even better, the type could be:

    data PortNum = PortNum { msb, lsb :: Word8 }

so that we avoid this kind of confusion?

-k
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