> Yep, the GHC stuff is a gold mine, and one which I frequent all to
> rarely (mostly using Hugs for development). Unfortunately, I can't
> find any URI -> String functions - but I could probably build it on
> top of URI and Socket (great stuff btw, just what I (might) need)
URI is an instance of Show, so you can just apply 'show' to get a string.
> Are any of these libraries standardised across Haskell
> implementations? Hugs doesn't seem to come with much.
We're working on it. Unfortunately there are a lot of dependencies on GHC
extensions (eg. URI uses Regex, and Regex still uses some legacy GHC
features which are being superceded by the new FFI).
Cheers,
Simon