[Haskell-cafe] Problem on overlapping instances

[Magicloud Magiclouds]

Steffen Schuldenzucker:
  Sure. GHC would prompt that.

Jasper Van der Jeugt:
  Not working with ghc7. But there sure are some threads about this
kind of things. I do not know if this is a bug of 6.* or 7, either.

Luke Palmer:
  Sorry, by special, I meant, for example, ["a", "b"] will be "ab" by
default, but I want it to be "a,b". So I'd like to overload for
certain types.

Stephen Tetley:
  I think that are the only choices. The first is simple, but the
second saves some code writing.

After all, thanks.

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Stephen Tetley <stephen.tetley at gmail.com> wrote:
> You have two choices (other people have enumerated the first while I
> was typing):
>
> First choice:
>
> Wrap your Stringlist with a newtype:
>
> newtype StringList = StringList [String]
>
> The downside of this your code gets "polluted" with the newtype.
>
> Second choice:
>
> Write special putStringList and getStringList functions. Hand-code the
> binary instances where you are wanting [String] to be special and call
> putStringList and getStringList rather than put and get.
>
> Downside - cannot automatically derive Binary. That's if Binary can be
> automatically derived anyway?, the times when I need Binary I write
> the instances myself anyway.
>
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