class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">net</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">ip</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">tcp</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">socket</span></code></a>. Any program which currently
        uses a socket, can switch to a <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">tcp_stream</span></code>
        and achieve the features above (although some interfaces are different, see
        bel