Re: Discussion: Why is inet_addr in IO?

Me too. The reason is in IO predates me. We should add it under a new name however. On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:06 PM, David Feuer wrote:

That sounds like a no-brainer to me. On Aug 28, 2014 10:41 AM, "Edward Kmett" wrote:

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inet_addr doesn't do any lookups, it is basically a glorified parsing problem converting from a string to a host address.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/network-2.6.0.1/docs/src/Network-Socket.h...

Why, beyond the obvious implementation details, does it live in IO?

Given that the current version lives in IO, should there be a version that is obviously made pure so that folks who want to use it directly can do so without having to bury it behind an unsafePerformIO?

This isn't a concrete proposal at this time, but more an attempt to sound out if such a proposal should be formed.

-Edward

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