patch applied (haskell-prime-status): add overloaded string literals

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Am Dienstag, 1. April 2008 00:31 schrieb Simon Marlow:
> Mon Mar 31 15:31:44 PDT 2008  Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com>
>   * add overloaded string literals
>
>     M ./status.hs +2

Hello,

although I like overloaded string literals very much, I see one problem with 
the current implementation of them in GHC.  It’s the class name “IsString”.  
No other Haskell class name I know starts with “Is”; we don’t 
have “IsNum”, “IsMonad”, etc.

Would it be possible to change the class name “IsString” to something 
different?  Would it be possible to remove the type alias “String” and 
let “String” be the class name?  Can I add this remark somewhere on the wiki?

Best wishes,
Wolfgang