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

Am 03.06.2010 08:05 schrieb Ketil Malde:

Antoine Latter writes:

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*Main> PortNum 8888 47138

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The PortNum constructor should rarely be used directly

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

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- 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

Hi, since this is really not obvious, I'd second to hide the constructor or at least a note should be added to the docs how to use PortNumber correctly. Regards, Matthias