[Haskell] Re: Existing Haskell IPv6 Code

Einar Karttunen writes:

Lifting [network address information] to Haskell level seems quite pointless, as it is usually just fed back to the C functions.

Well, I certainly _do_ need it.

The current way is to ignore adress families as much as possible while still supporting multiple ones. E.g. the following works with both IPv4 and IPv6 in network-alt:

googleMainPage = do h <- connectTCP "www.google.com" "http"

That's true. However, it doesn't work with anything _but_ IPv4 and IPv6. I think it is unsatisfactory that you need a different function to connect to a TCP target than to connect to a Unix stream socket. The longer I think about this whole thing, the more I am convinced that using URIs is the answer. Peter