default instance for IsString

Greg Weber greg at gregweber.info
Sun Apr 22 17:32:30 CEST 2012


so how can I update the documentation? I asked some of the most
experienced Haskell users at the Hackathon about this, and looked
through any documentation I could find and there was nothing
indicating I could do what you sent in your last message.

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Markus Läll <markus.l2ll at gmail.com> wrote:
> The core of it is in the GHC docs' overloaded strings section [1].
>
> It could be clearer though -- reading about defaulting in the reports,
> in the type defaulting section of GHC docs and in [1] can be a bit
> confusing.
>
> [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/type-class-extensions.html#overloaded-strings
>
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Greg Weber <greg at gregweber.info> wrote:
>> Thanks Markus, I think you have saved the day!
>> Even after googling for this extension and searching in the manual I
>> am still coming up pretty blank.
>> Is there somewhere I missed where this is documented or somewhere I
>> can contribute documentation?
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Markus Läll <markus.l2ll at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ExtendedDefaultRules
>
>
>
> --
> Markus Läll



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