Discussion: Why is inet_addr in IO?

[David Feuer]

That sounds like a no-brainer to me.
On Aug 28, 2014 10:41 AM, "Edward Kmett" <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:

> inet_addr doesn't do any lookups, it is basically a glorified parsing
> problem converting from a string to a host address.
>
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/network-2.6.0.1/docs/src/Network-Socket.html#inet_addr
>
> Why, beyond the obvious implementation details, does it live in IO?
>
> Given that the current version lives in IO, should there be a version that
> is obviously made pure so that folks who want to use it directly can do so
> without having to bury it behind an unsafePerformIO?
>
> This isn't a concrete proposal at this time, but more an attempt to sound
> out if such a proposal should be formed.
>
> -Edward
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