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-rw-r--r--ghc/docs/users_guide/libmisc.vsgml12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/libmisc.vsgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/libmisc.vsgml
index 87c6430089..7a604a33ac 100644
--- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/libmisc.vsgml
+++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/libmisc.vsgml
@@ -837,11 +837,17 @@ recvFrom :: Hostname -> PortID -> IO String
socketPort :: Socket -> IO PortID
data PortID -- PortID is a non-abstract type
- = Service String -- Service Name eg "ftp"
- | PortNumber Int -- User defined Port Number
- | UnixSocket String -- Unix family socket in file system
+ = Service String -- Service Name eg "ftp"
+ | PortNumber PortNumber -- User defined Port Number
+ | UnixSocket String -- Unix family socket in file system
type Hostname = String
+
+ -- 16-bit value (stored in network byte order).
+data PortNumber
+ -- instance of: Eq, Num, Show.
+
+mkPortNumber :: Int -> PortNumber
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Various examples of networking Haskell code are provided in