IRC messages consist of an optional identifying prefix, a command
name, and a list of arguments. The irc
package provides a low-level decoding and encoding scheme for
messages in terms of ByteStrings, but using this relies on matching
names of commands as strings, and unpacking this decoded structure
yourself. This package takes it a little further, providing an ADT
for IRC messages and sources, and conduits which attempt to decode
and encode messages appropriately.
In addition to providing conduits for automatically handling
streaming messages, there are also helper functions for connecting
to an IRC server and hooking up conduits to the socket.
