OverloadedLists

[Stephen Paul Weber]

Somebody claiming to be Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>    The design is described here:
>        http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/OverloadedLists
>
>    Eg. you can use it for maps, so that
>            [(1,"foo"), (4,"bar")] :: Map Int String

So, this has probably been asked before, but out of curiosity, given:

	 instance IsList Text where
		type Item Text = Char
		fromList = Text.pack
		toList   = Text.unpack

What is the relationship to OverloadedStrings?  Since "blah" is sugar for 
['b','l','a','h'], could OverloadedLists also work for string literals 
/ string patterns?

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