Talk:Parse an IP Address: Difference between revisions

::::: In languages which have variable length tuples as a native time type(like Pico Lisp) returning a port number or omitting a port number is trivial. You can either return (addr-family ip-address port) or (addr-family ip-address). In a language like C, it's much more natural to use something like a struct with a fixed memory layout. Of course, whether this issue propagates to a textual representation of the result is a different issue... But currently the task is asking for a result and a textual representation of that result would be for illustrative purposes. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 16:21, 28 September 2011 (UTC)