Proposal: Improving the IsString String instance

[Henning Thielemann]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Gabriel Gonzalez wrote:

> I'm guessing this is sarcastic, but I just want to clarify what I 
> understood Henning's proposal to be.  He's not saying we should provide 
> an `o` function in the standard library, but rather encourage users to 
> define their own.

Yes. I would be ok if packages provide this function, but I would urge 
programmers to import that explicitly.

>  This one liner would take the place of the current line that they 
> devote right now to `OverloadedStrings` .

right

> However, the analogy is still apt since the exact same line of reasoning applies to overloaded numeric
> literals where we currently rely on defaulting to solve this problem.

I always use -Wall and thus I am warned about when defaulting takes 
place. Thus I am confident that I do not rely on defaulting in my code.