Quo vadis?

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On 09/10/2018 00:58, Mario Blažević wrote:
> 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 ?
>
>

Found the spoons - done!