[Haskell-cafe] TCP Server

[Mario Blažević]

On 12-01-28 06:56 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Yves Parès<yves.pares at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I think there is still no consensus on which iteratee library is the one
>>> to use. There are at least iteratee, enumerator, iterIO, conduit, and
>>> pipes. The reusability of your libary depends on the choice of
>>> iteratee-style library you select.
>>
>> Yes, and IMO this is a growing problem. Since iteratees were designed, a lot
>> of different libraries providing this kind of service have appeared.
>> Of course they all have advantages and inconvenients, but some libraries
>> that could be compatible are not, because they rely on a different
>> iteratee-ish package. For instance pipes (as its documentation states) is
>> really like iteratee... but with more concrete names. Still it's sufficient
>> to break compatibility.
>>
> In principle it's possible to have some code that converts functions
> between these different iteratee packages -- at least between
> iteratee, enumerator and iterIO since these seem to have more or less
> the same implementation ideas.


	It's not only possible, it's done. The coroutine-enumerator and 
coroutine-iteratee packages convert to and from the enumerator and 
iteratee packages, using monad-coroutine as a bridge. The conversions 
are bare-bone, and I don't know if anybody has ever used them in 
practice. They still prove the concept.


 > Converting from pipes may be possible, but to pipes seems pretty
 > difficult since pipes sweeps IO under the rug.

	A Pipe appears to be just a specialized Coroutine from the 
monad-coroutine package with its type arguments expanded, so it would 
also be convertible.

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Mario Blazevic
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