An IsString (NonEmpty Char) instance

[Henning Thielemann]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, Artyom wrote:

> Yes, but the same is true for `-XOverloadedLists` and the `IsList`
> instance of `NonEmpty`, and we have the `IsList NonEmpty` instance anyway.

I thought that NonEmpty was intended to increase type safety compared to 
the partial list functions in Data.List (head, maximum etc.) If we accept 
partial constructors for NonEmpty then we can return to lists, can't we?

> By the way, it'd be nice to have GHC warn about such cases, the same way 
> it already warns about integer literals that are guaranteed to overflow:

That would be better, but you can still bypass this warning by calling 
fromString directly, without overloaded string literals:

   fromString $ map toUpper ""