13 Mar
2009
13 Mar
'09
3:45 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Stefan Schmidt
Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 14:56 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
However, it's also arguably the case that you shouldn't care about port number ordering. That smells dodgy to me.
Port ranges aren't that uncommon.
That's exactly were I need the comparison. I'm writing a program which takes a range of port numbers and tries to open a socket with the first available port number. The whole thing is part of a distributed system and I cannot specify just a single port number because I could already been taken.
Stefan
So the Ord instance is wrong for the PortNumber type? Well, maybe not wrong. But not as useful as it could be. Antoine