[Haskell] string type class

[minh thu]

2009/3/6 Wolfgang Jeltsch <g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org>:
> Am Freitag, 6. März 2009 13:33 schrieb Matthew Pocock:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems every time I look at hackage there is yet another stringy
>> datatype. For lots of apps, the particular stringy datatype you use matters
>> for performance but not algorithmic reasons. Perhaps this is a good time
>> for someone to propose a stringy class?
>>
>> Matthew
>
> There is already the class IsString which was introduced for overloaded string
> literals.
>
> However, the name is terrible. No other Haskell class I know of has an “Is” at
> its beginning. Classes don’t name properties (IsNum, IsMonoid, Has…).

LLVM bindings use it a lot...

Cheers,
Thu