default instance for IsString

[Simon Marlow]

On 24/04/2012 14:14, Daniel Peebles wrote:
> Why are potentially partial literals scarier than the fact that every
>  value in the language could lead to an exception when forced?

My thoughts exactly.  In this thread people are using the term "safe" to
mean "total".  We already overload "safe" too much, might it be a better
idea to use "total" instead?

(and FWIW I'm not sure I see what all the fuss is about either)

Cheers,
	Simon


>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Yitzchak Gale <gale at sefer.org
> <mailto:gale at sefer.org>> wrote:
>
> Markus Läll wrote:
>> You do know, that you already *can* have safe Text and ByteString
> from
>> an overloaded string literal.
>
> Yes, the IsString instances for Text and ByteString are safe (I
> hope).
>
> But in order to use them, I have to turn on OverloadedStrings. That
> could cause other string literals in the same module to throw
> exceptions at run time.
>
> -Yitz
>
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