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connect(address, port, receiver)This function establishes a connection to the remote Internet host named by address (a string giving the IP address of the remote host) at the port port.
If address is not a valid IP address, then connect() throw
an ~address error. If a socket cannot be created for the
connection, then connect() throws a ~socket error.
Otherwise, connect() attemptes to connect to the remote host and
returns 1 immediately; it does not wait to see if the connection attempt
succeeded.
If the connection succeeds, then the server will send the object
receiver a connect message, with one argument the task ID
of the task which called connect() (see task_id).
receiver then becomes the handler object for the connection, and
receives parse messages when lines arrive from the connection, as
well as a disconnect message when the connection terminates.
If the connection fails, then the object receiver will receive a
failed message with two arguments, the task ID of the task which
called connect(), and an error code: ~refused indicates
that the connection was refused, ~net indicates that the network
of the remote host could not be reached, ~timeout indicates that
the connection attempt timed out, and ~other indicates that some
other error occurred.