Quo vadis?

[Mario Blažević]

On 2018-10-07 11:32 PM, Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
>
> I'd be remiss if I didn't suggest a candidate with a specific problem, 
> a specific goal and a possible solution to its problem. So, a modest 
> proposal:
>
> - Standardise OverloadedStrings as an available-but-disabled feature
> - Allow default statements for the IsString class without 
> OverloadedStrings, using that type for all string literals
> - At some future stage, we can use this to migrate away from [Char] as 
> the default string literal type
> - The Haskell2010 pragma and its successors can be used to ensure code 
> written to standard doesn't suffer bit rot when migration happens


The second bullet point could use some clarification. Would you mind 
commenting on the existing defaulting proposal at 
https://github.com/haskell/rfcs/pull/18 ?