[Haskell-cafe] Bug in Network package

[Jeffrey Shaw]

This is a case where a line of documentation could save a lot of people a
lot of trouble. Anyone have a clone of network handy that they could make a
pull request from?

Jeff


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Florian Hofmann <
fhofmann at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:

> Ah ok ... thanks for the clarification
>
>
> 2013/4/10 Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Florian Hofmann <
>> fhofmann at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>>
>>> I might be mistaken, but is there a bug in the Show instance of PortNum?
>>>
>>
>> Not a bug, an annoying misdesign (IMO). A PortNum is actually in network
>> byte order. If you extract it, you get the original port; if you simply
>> show it, you see it byteswapped on little-endian platforms.
>>
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