[Haskell-cafe] How to support multiple string types in Haskell?

[Mario Blazevic]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 8:40 PM, KwangYul Seo <kwangyul.seo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> There are multiple string types in Haskell – String, lazy/strict
> ByteString, lazy/strict Text to name a few. So to make a string handling
> function maximally reusable, it needs to support multiple string types.
>
> ...
> It seems StringLike type class is quite generic but it is used only in the
> TagSoup package. This makes me wonder what is the idiomatic way to support
> multiple string types in Haskell. What other approaches do we have?
>


StringLike is only one of the packages supplying the class or classes to
support all the usual string types. There is also ListLike and (my own)
monoid-subclasses. You can visit
http://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse to see all their reverse
dependencies and see how they're used.
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