On Tuesday 03 April 2007 09:18, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
I've updated both the ticket and repo with the latest change, to use lists instead of bitmasks. I left flag names as AI_FOO etc due to name clashes. [...]
Naming entities always has a slightly religious touch, but personally I don't like those C names in Haskell. Prefixing things in C is only necessary because you basically don't have any control over namespaces, but Haskell is quite different from it. 'NumericHost' looks much nicer and Haskell-like than 'AI_NUMERICHOST', and even in the unlikely case that there is a name clash, one could always use qualification. Anyway, the constructors of 'Family' have traditionally ugly names, too, so perhaps to keep the "consistency of unattractiveness", I can live with the 'AI_' and 'NI_' prefixes... :-P BTW, what's that' DummySocketOption__' thingy? If I see things correctly, you can't use it with {g,s}etSocketOption and it has no other visible use. Cheers, S.