[Haskell-cafe] language proposal: ad-hoc overloading

[Andrew Coppin]

Gwern Branwen wrote:
> I think this would be very nice in GHCi, because there the situation is even *worse*.
>
> I think we've all experienced importing Data.Map or Data.ByteString and discovering we need to tediously write it out in *full*, because we can't even do qualified imports of it!
>   

Amen to that!

Data.ByteString.Lazy.pack "Hello " Data.ByteString.Lazy.++ 
Data.ByteString.Lazy.pack "World!"