Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell not ready for Foo [was: Re: Hypothetical Haskell job in New York]

Bardur Arantsson wrote:

Thanks. For some reason I hadn't thought to use

(fromIntegral x)::PortNumber

I guess I got stuck on the idea of constructing a PortNum directly and didn't think beyond that. (Maybe PortNum should really be an abstract

No problem. I knew exactly what your problem was because I had the exact same blinders on when I first learned the Haskell networking API. It would be helpful to have a pointer to this in the Haddock docs, because it is non-intuitive to somebody just learning it.

I guess the API isn't all that idiosyncratic after all :).

Just a touch under-documented ;-)