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

Achim Schneider wrote:

Johan Tibell wrote:

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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.

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