RE: Should inet_ntoa Be Pure?

On 07 May 2005 11:59, Dominic Steinitz wrote:

Does anyone know why these are in the IO monad? Aren't they pure functions converting between dotted-decimal strings and a 32-bit network byte ordered binary value?

Dominic.

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/network/Network.So cket.html#v%3Ainet_addr

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/network/Network.So cket.html#v%3Ainet_ntoa Clearly it should be pure. To avoid breaking the interface, we could add: showHostAddress :: HostAddress -> String and deprecate inet_ntoa? Cheers, Simon