[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: vector-bytestring-0.0.0.0

[Roman Leshchinskiy]

On 15/10/2011, at 12:26, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote:

> On 14/10/2011, at 12:37, Bas van Dijk wrote:
> 
>> If there's need for a specific Show instance for Vectors of Word8s we
>> can always add one directly to vector. (Roman, what are your thoughts
>> on this?)
> 
> Personally, I think that ByteString and especially Vector Word8 aren't strings and shouldn't be treated as such. But I wouldn't be strongly against showing them as strings. However, I *am* strongly against using UndecidableInstances in vector and I don't see how to implement this without using them.

I meant OverlappingInstances, of course. To clarify, I would still consider it if everybody thinks it's a really good idea.

Roman