network programming

[Tomas By]

Hi all,

Has anyone thought about network programming in Mercury? I suppose
the way to do it would be to add some socket open/close commands
to io.m and have them return io__stream:s. Seems to me this shouldn't
be _that hard_, so presumably I'm missing something. Do these things
vary a lot between platforms? (I know nada about network programming
under Windoze, for example).

/Tomas