On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Stefan Schmidt <stefanschmid...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Philippa Cowderoy wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 14:56 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: >>> >>> However, it's also arguably the case that you shouldn't care about port >>> number ordering. That smells dodgy to me. >> >> Port ranges aren't that uncommon. > > That's exactly were I need the comparison. I'm writing a program which takes > a range of port numbers and tries to open a socket with the first available > port number. The whole thing is part of a distributed system and I cannot > specify just a single port number because I could already been taken. > > Stefan
So the Ord instance is wrong for the PortNumber type? Well, maybe not wrong. But not as useful as it could be. Antoine _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
