[Haskell-cafe] Re: Coming up with a better API for Network.Socket.recv

Johan Tibell wrote:

I'm also interested in understanding the reasons behind the design of the `recv` function in the network library.

POSIX semantics. And, frankly, I'm opposed to messing with them: If you want to have different behaviour, please do a (different|wrapper) library. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.