Proposal: Improving the IsString String instance

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Henning Thielemann <
schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

> I predict that soon people will propose here on this mailing list to
> replace Prelude's half-monomorphic 'length' by a fully polymorphic
> Foldable.length. It does not yet exist, but it could be added easily. What
> will you do then?


Nothing, because the keepers of the Prelude are allergic to such
generalizations....

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