default instance for IsString

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 02:14, J. Garrett Morris <jgmorris at cs.pdx.edu>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Yitzchak Gale <gale at sefer.org> wrote:
> > This is true; the use of polymorphism for numeric literals is also
> > unsound.
>
> By this logic, head is "unsound", since head [] throws an error.
>

Oddly enough, it's actually widely recognized that non-total functions like
`head` pose problems.  it still remains that string (or indeed numeric)
literals are not expected to cause runtime exceptions.

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