[web-devel] ToWidget instances for Text and friends

[Michael Snoyman]

CCing the Yesod mailing list, which may have more opinions.

I'm fine with the change if there are no objections. Want to send a PR?

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Andrew Martin <andrew.thaddeus at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have copied the body of this github issue get feedback on this
> suggestion:
>
> https://github.com/yesodweb/yesod/issues/1298
>
> The ToWidget typeclass could be more helpful than it currently
> is. Notably, there are sensible instances for Text, lazy Text, and text
> Builder that are not provided. I think that one objection to introducing
> such classes is that there is a piece of syntax in the shakespeare
> quasiquoter ^{..} that calls ToWidget on its argument. Adding more
> instances would allow the end user to feed text into this construct,
> which might be undesirable.
>
> I don't use the quasiquoter for templating, so the downside of it
> doesn't bother me. The reason I would like these instances is because
> there are a number of situations where I have to call `toWidget .  toHtml`
> in my code that could be abbreviated to toWidget if these instances were
> provided. If this change is at odds with the goals of the TH templating,
> then I wouldn't want to mess that up for people, but if not, I would
> find these instances useful.
>
> I would appreciate any feedback, even if it's just in the form of a +1
> or -1 response without any further explanation.
>
> -Andrew Martin
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