Don't get me wrong -- the socket support is pretty decent, but there are also some weird idiosyncrasies, for example requiring that the PortNum is specified in network byte order and lacking a function to convert host->network byte order (hton).
PortNum is indeed strange, but it does allow yo to specify the value in your local endian without swapping: > print (toEnum 0x0102 :: PortNumber) 258 what is misleading you is that the obvious construction doesn't: > print (PortNum 0x0102) 513 I'm suprised htonl comes up so often. You can unmarshall data directly from a byte stream to an Int type without caring about the underlying representation of your Int. Why do people want the htonl function?
Bardur Arantsson
Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/