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
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