[Haskell-cafe] fromString and toString

[Ben Foppa]

That's exactly what I want, thank you!
On Feb 20, 2014 2:15 AM, "Patrick Pelletier" <code at funwithsoftware.org>
wrote:

> On 2/4/14, 5:55 AM, Ben Foppa wrote:
>
>  The reason this came up is that I'm getting pretty sick of type-juggling
>> different string types from different libraries (String, Text, various
>> ByteStrings), especially since I have to tweak all the functions I use
>> if a type changes; discovering fromString was fantastic, but without
>> toString, I can't define something like
>>
>> reString :: (IsString a, IsString b) => a -> b
>>
>> which is great to have if your putStrLn only accepts one kind of string,
>> and you have several distinct ones floating around.
>>
>
> Although it doesn't seem to be used much, I noticed that there's this
> package on Hackage:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stringable-0.1.2/docs/
> Data-Stringable.html
>
> which seems like it's addressing the same problem you're trying to solve.
>
> --Patrick
>
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